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Auction History Result 6z848 BITTER SPRINGS 3 LCs '51 Australian western starring Chips Rafferty, different! Date Sold 5/12/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original 1951 Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Bitter Springs, the 1950 Ralph Smart Australian/English Ealing Studios Outback sheep herding Aborigine action adventure melodrama ("An adventure story of the Australian bush."; "from an original story by Ralph Smart"; about a group of English sheep herders who intend to take them into the Outback and set up a ranch at a waterhole, but they discover that there are Aborigines there who need the water badly, and the two sides clash, and after a killing of an Aborigine, one of the Englishman's sons is kidnapped, and things escalate from there) starring Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Michael Pate, Nonnie Piper, Gordon Jackson, Charles Tingwel, and Jean Blue. Note that the movie is filled with the culture clash between the white men and the Aborigines living in Australia at that time, and it treats the subject in a pretty even handed manner, giving time for both sides' views, but it is weakened by an artificial tacked-on happy ending that has the military come in and break things up, and then the Aborigines agree to work for the white men and share the land, which makes little sense compared to what came before. But it is still an important historical document of that time, filmed in Australia. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good. One has a pair of tint staple holes in the upper blank border. They are otherwise in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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