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An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles "Smithy" Kingsford-Smith.
🎬 Film Information:
Title: Smithy
Year: 1946
Director: Ken G. Hall
Cast: Ron Randell, Muriel Steinbeck, John Tate
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Thank you NFAS for this wonderful reminder of Sir Charles Kingsford Smiths contribution to our history. A history regrettably forgotten by the many of those few who gave so much for this country.
Then Australian Prime Minister 'Billy' Hughes plays himself in the movie. Billy was a difficult cove in real life and it is amazing to see and hear him speaking in the movie.
The kid sitting next to Smithy at 59 minutes was 'Bluey' Truscott (d. 1943) the RAAF fighter ace in WWII
Outstanding movie, been to Australia a few times, while in the USN, beautiful country and beautiful, kind people, thank you for posting this movie !!!!
In 1935, Kingsford Smith and his co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge disappeared over the Andaman Sea while attempting to break the Australia-England speed record. He was fêted as a national hero during the Great Depression and received numerous honours during his lifetime. After his death, Sydney's primary airport was named in his memory, and he was featured on the Australian twenty-dollar note for several decades.
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@@mickeybitsko1676 You are as wrong as only the 'stupid' can be !
@@mickeybitsko1676.......actually, I care.
@@mickeybitsko1676 So do i
It's a great thing they made this movie back then to remind us all of these amazing people and times.
In 1965 when I was 12 year old, my family and I flew on the same route - California - Hawaii - Fiji - Sydney. Can't imagine what it would have been like in 1928, flying in a Fokker Tri-motor. They were truly magnificent men in their flying machine.
Need more inspirational movies like this back when people dared to dream
A really excellent film I have never seen before. A very brave pilot who accomplished so much in aviation history.
Ron Randell was b in Sydney, though his accent is difficult to detect. He never seems to age in this film. Excellent film. I admit I knew notjing about this pioneer. Thanks for showing
Great to see quite a big cameo with "The Little Digger" Billy Hughes himself. I think a great deal of the emotion surrounding Kingford Smith is not just about a great man doing great things but the taming of "the tyranny of distance" the terrible sense of Australian isolation and exile.
The 1920's and 30's were truly exciting times in the history of aviation. It's a pity that so many brave people died trying to push the boundaries, but that's what many explorers did, and still do.
I'm from 'Blighty' & pretty bloody ancient but not seen this before. Yea, familiar with the Southern Cross flying business but not to that extent. I guess Australia had a hell of a lot of pioneers & Smithy was a more modern one. Great bloke. Sad end.
Never knew this film existed. Very good production for its time, the actual flying sequences are very good as well with minimal use of models.
Some actual newsreel footage in there in a few places. 50:19 for example.
For aviation fans. Very entertaining.
As G. Allan Hancock financed the Southern Cross, he founded an aeronautical school to train pilots. The school was one of many of Hancock's ventures. The college at Santa Maria, CA which bears his name is on the grounds of that aeronautical school.
The airport at Santa Maria is also named after Hancock.
You might be correct in who financed the expedition, but Sir Charles Edward Kingsford is the hero here. Along with Charles Ulm, he flew the Southern Cross across the Pacific Ocean in 1928, a feat that had never been done before.
@@oddsteinardybvad-raneng Oh, I do not mean to detract from who did what. Certainly are Kingford-Smith and Ulm the heroes. I mean only to add to the story, to add depth.
Hancock in his own right had accomplished many firsts
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The true story of a great man, a great pioneer, a great adventurer & a great aviator who did great things & fought against the large conglomerates for his airline without success. Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC AFC (9 February 1897 - 8 November 1935).
This movie is so well put together that it can also be said to be a fine tribute to Sir Charles and those early fliers.
For another glimpse into those early days of aeronautical passage making, I highly recommend the book, The Lonely Sea And The Sky, by Francis Chichester.
Gipsy Moth Circles the World is a great book about Chichester’s solo circumnavigation in a small sailboat.
@mtnman3MTA3 Sir Francis became a very accomplished sailor. BTW: the name of his many boats was gotten from the D60 Gipsy Moth which he used in his solo flight from NZ to Aust. via Lord Howe and Norfolk islands.
One of my heroes, Sir Francis was a daring aviator and mariner. I have followed in those footsteps, though a lesser extent.
When the boys are leaning on the white timber fence before they scrounge a flight, that was 60s beachside Australia.
That fence design, large and small, was everywhere.
You'd duck under to walk on railway property for a shortcut,. Lean on the fence at the beach.
RIP Smithy, you pushed your luck a little too far.
Poor bloody wife !!!
And his co-pilot.
Splendid. Classic. Adventure. Movie. 👌😉👌🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great film. Lovely to see an old Boomerang representing "Lady Southern Cross."
REspect and a great film
I thought Smithy was gonna be played by George Formby !! " Ooh heck eez firing bults 'ut me tha' nasty Garman !! " Ooh 'ell that wert close ! " "Blooming 'eck ! " " Help Mother ! "
The SOUTHERN CROSS is on display near the Brisbane international airport, and plane Bert Hinkler,
another Australian pioneer aviator's plane is in Bundaberg, Queensland, Hinkler's birth place.
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Ah…!
The old warriors of the sky.
Planes made from wood and glue.
A nice popcorn movie in 1946.
As that great Australian Woody Allen said:"I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
Thank you for offering this educational, and surprisingly long, film. Though I was born on Long Island only a few miles from where Charles Lindbergh took off to fly to Paris, I much prefer this film and all it concerns than dealing with that Nazi sympathizer. I think James Stewart is a phenomenal actor, and he did justice to Lindbergh's story. But given the time this film, "Smithy" was made, it does great justice to men who put their lives on the line to achieve great things. And it should be clearly noted, this flight was funded in the film because the USA was concerned about Asian, especially Japanese, expansion as a threat to Hawaii and the west coast of the USA. This is also something expressed in other films at the time. The Gary Cooper film "The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell" discusses this issue near the beginning of the film.
The movie starts off in Queensland ,the glass house mountains in the background .where i live was one of the many airports built to service the war against Japan.during the war a😃btge
The Lockheed Orion is actually a Commonwealth aircraft "Boomerang MkII", a military fighter produced in Australia.
Original title Smithy in 1946. Also known as Pacific Adventure.
Released in the UK as Southern Cross
26:08 Ford Trimotor?
You could certainly make the case the government, politics of rival aviation companies with better connections cost Smith and Pethybridge
No the stupidity of flying when you are not well. Condemned himself and his co-pilot.
The US version, known as *Pacific Adventure,* runs 27 minutes shorter, omitting all scenes of ex-Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes
What does NFSA stand for?
National Film and Sound Archives (Australia)
No credits??
Abut dramatised the last scene. No one knows what happened and losing his wife’s photo out of the plane For Gods sake 😂😂😂
Are they going to sell the full story about when he had to leave the Philippines on orders and his wife and child were locked in a death camp he went into the Australian Air Force where he assigned to an are group and he developed the B-25 skip bombing that broke the back of the Japanese Navy and destroyed the invasion Fleet that would have taken New Guinea a true hero not a dugout
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Bit of an achievement to do all this, considering he had been dead for 6 years when all this happened. Perhaps he was “dug out” for the occasion ha ha.
Brave man though whose actual achievements should be more celebrated
You’re thinking of Paul “Pappy” Gunn. See the book “Indestructible” by John R. Bruning.
Flying clothes in the Mess - not on.
Unfortunately, dull. It did just OK at the box office. The plane, Southern Cross, is the actual real plane! In this movje. Too, bad the movie isn't better, it has real life subject matter, that was exciting. Poor script. Director fails to deliver proper build up to climatic passages. About the achievement s of daring early Aviator, Australian Kingsford Smith. Smith is very little known outside Australia.
Just watched it. The accents were OK! Smithy accent was definitely NOT like that!
Drinking in 1927 in public in the USA????
The Southern Cross, which disappeared in 1931, was found by a hiker in 1958 off course and in wrong direction in the Snowy Mountains.
Wrong plane!
First published in The Age on October 29, 1958.
Cooma, Tuesday - On a heavily-timbered slope, high in the Snowy Mountains, a search party of seven yesterday confirmed the solution of Australia’s biggest aviation mystery - the disappearance of the >> Southern Cloud
@ The Southern Cloud. A Fokker Trimotor “copy@
@@oddsteinardybvad-raneng That's correct, there are two memorials to the Southern Cloud disaster that I know of, one is in Cooma near the showgrounds, with a lot of the parts that were found at the site including a motor and a couple of the propellers as well as a few other bits and pieces from the Southern Cloud, and the other is on the Tumbarumba - Corryong Rd, as a rest stop with a lot signage detailing the crash and it's subsequent finding nearly thirty years later, both sites are well worth the visit. Both sombre and chilling reminders to Australia's early aviation era.
I was a small child in Cooma in 1958 and remember hearing the news on radio 2XL. I am sure they said it was a stockman who foumd the wreckage.
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This is supposed to be in Australian movie but the accents they’re all wrong even Ron Randall as Smitty he didn’t sound like at all. I’m very very disappointed in the movie.
I was wondering why they didn’t seem to have Australian accents.
That was the type of speech in films of those days mate. Just an example of it's period.
That was the way actors were taught to speak. You rarely heard real Australian accents on film till the 50s and 60s.
As to how Kingsford-Smith actually sounded like: th-cam.com/video/I2-GiiOyifA/w-d-xo.html A slight accent yes, but a bit of "BBC English" over the top.
Grammar school boy from Lane Cove old chap.
Very good movie!