Bitter Springs is a 1950 Australian–British film directed by Ralph Smart and starring Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty and Gordon Jackson.

Despite warnings from a local trooper, the bigoted King clashes with an Aboriginal tribe who depend on water located on what has become the family's property.

[8] The original script ended with the massacre of Aboriginal people at the hands of the white settlers, but this was changed at the insistence of Ealing Studios.

[14][15] Location shooting was completed in November, nearly two months behind schedule due to rain delays, and was followed by two weeks at Pagewood Studios in Sydney.

[22] Although reviews were generally respectful[23][24] the film was a box office disappointment on release and Ealing abandoned its plans to make further movies in Australia.

Ealing Studios are to be praised for their enterprise in looking to the Dominions for original material, but they have made a film which is rough and unpolished without being genuinely fresh in treatment.

"[26] Variety wrote: "Smart has interwoven into the plot for femme appeal a well-constructed romance between Nonnie Piper (easy-to-look-at new Aussie'player) and Britisher Gordon Jackson.

"[28] Leslie Halliwell said: "Thinnest of the Ealing attempts to make movies down under, suffering from a lack of pace and sharpness as well as obvious studio settings.