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Join Now Ballarat Film Society - Smiley
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12 Dec 2024
Description
To conclude this year marking their 70-year existence, watch a 1956 Australian film classic about an imaginative young boy who lives in the fictional small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback.
Listen to an older generation of Australian accents; watch two-up games and immerse yourself in a 1950s country sensibility. Smiley has an alcoholic drover father and an overworked mother. He saves up for a new bike by working odd jobs and slowly raises the money for his dream. In doing so, he unknowingly helps a dodgy publican called Rankin to sell opium to the local Aboriginal people living nearby.
Smiley’s adventures are just beginning… Smiley, and the 1958 Smiley Gets A Gun were released in the UK and US and went onto become international successes when few Australian films were being made. On a bit of trivia, young Colin Petersen went on to become the Bee Gees drummer. Roadshow.
Australia, 1956, USA/Britain, 93 min.
Dir: Anthony Kimmins. Stars: Ralph Richardson, Colin Petersen (Smiley), John McCallum, Chips Rafferty, Charles Tingwell.
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Doors at 7:30 PM
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
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