Smiley

Smiley (1956)

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away from home. Much to the exasperation of his overworked wife, Ma Greevins, Bill is also very fond of the drink. Smiley is determined to buy himself a push bike and so he takes on odd jobs in an effort to save up enough money. But Smiley always seems to get caught up in some sort of misadventure. Smiley is a classic Australian film that will delight audiences of all ages.

Erscheinungsdatum
1956-06-28
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (8)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 37 Min.
Genres
Komödie
Regie
Anthony Kimmins

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Smiley is a 1956 British–American comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Colin Petersen. It was based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Moore Raymond who co-wrote the film with Kimmins. It tells the story of a young Australian boy who is determined to buy a bicycle for four pounds, and along the way gets into many misadventures.

Production

The film is based on the 1945 novel Smiley by Moore Raymond, who was born in Queensland but worked as a journalist in Britain. The book was hailed as an Australian Huckleberry Finn and film rights were bought immediately by Sir Alexander Korda. Korda sent Raymond to Australia in 1946 to find possible child actors and locations. However Korda said he could not find an appropriate director and shelved the project.

Korda eventually assigned the project to Anthony Kimmins, who had served in Australia in World War II. Kimmins arrived in Australia in March 1950 to begin pre-production and announced he would make the film near Augathella for £100,000. However, after actually inspecting the site he doubted it would be useful and he was unable to find a lead actor he was happy with. Plans to make the movie were delayed again.

Kimmins returned to Australia in September 1955 to begin pre-production. After interviewing over 2,000 boys, he cast Colin Peterson as Smiley and Bruce Archer as Joey.

Part of the budget was provided by 20th Century Fox, who had money frozen in Australia due to currency restrictions. Apart from Ralph Richardson, the entire cast was Australian. Korda reportedly took risky measures to finance the film, proceeding without a completion guarantee.

Filming started in late October, with the township of Murrumbilla being created on an estate at Camden Park, Gundy, New South Wales, and finished eight weeks later. Post production work was done at Pagewood Studios in Sydney. It was filmed in CinemaScope.

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