Smiley Gets a Gun

Smiley Gets a Gun (1958)

Everyone who ever was a boy... or ever loved one will do wild over...

The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others - all so he can earn a new gun from Sergeant Flaxman.

Date of release
1958-05-01
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Anthony Kimmins

Casting

Interesting facts

Smiley Gets a Gun is a 1958 Australian comedy-drama film in CinemaScope directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Sybil Thorndike and Chips Rafferty. It is the sequel to the 1956 film Smiley.

Production

The novel Smiley had been so popular that author Moore Raymond followed it up with Smiley Gets a Gun in 1947.

The father of Colin Petersen, the actor who first played Smiley, wanted more money for him to return. This meant a replacement had to be found. Anthony Kimmins looked at over 4,000 other applicants before finding Keith Calvert. Moore Raymond also had returned to England, writing Smiley comics for Swift Comics. Kimmins' daughter Verena, who helped the young actors in the first Smiley movie, had a featured role in the film.

Filming took eight weeks towards the end of 1957. Shooting took place at Camden and Pagewood Studios. It was part of a "mini boom" of foreign productions in Australia in the late 1950s.

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