Tommy (Tommy Trinder) is called in to smooth things out after Wally King (Chips Rafferty) encroaches upon Aboriginal tribal ground.Tommy (Tommy Trinder) is called in to smooth things out after Wally King (Chips Rafferty) encroaches upon Aboriginal tribal ground.Tommy (Tommy Trinder) is called in to smooth things out after Wally King (Chips Rafferty) encroaches upon Aboriginal tribal ground.
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- John King
- (as Charles Tingwell)
- Emma King
- (as Nonnie Piper)
- Black Jack
- (as Henry Murdock)
- Aborigine
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaChips Rafferty plays the father of Charles 'Bud' Tingwell's character, despite being less than 14 years his senior.
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Trooper: They call the natives that live there Karagany. The spring has been their tribal home for a thousand years. Two perhaps. Since the time we were savages anyway. A thousand years. One day, a bloke walks into the government office in Adelaide 800 miles away, bangs down eighty quid, they hand him a bit of stamped paper and Karagany haven't got a tribal home anymore.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Century of Cinema: 40,000 years of dreaming (1996)
Scot Gordon Jackson and Aussies Bud Tingwell and Michael Pate tag along for a little brawn and the occasional moral disagreement with the short tempered Rafferty (particularly Jackson), while half caste tracker and interpreter Henry Murdoch abandons the group and takes up with the aborigines in opposition to Rafferty's rough-handedness.
Standard Australian bush tucker from the era, with apparent racially prejudiced subject matter that might challenge some of today's audience sensitivities, but without commenting on the socio-political atmosphere, there's enough action, landscape, tribal culture and light drama to mildly entertain.
- Chase_Witherspoon
- Apr 29, 2011
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- Överfallet vid Bitter Springs
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1