Smithy (film, 1946)

Smithy
Smithy
Režija	Ken G. Hall
Producent	N. P. Pery
Scenario	Ken G. Hall (pod pseudonimom "John Chandler"=; Alec Coppel ; sinopsis: Max Afford; Ken G. Hall
Uloge	Ron Randell; Muriel Steinbeck
Muzika	Henry Krips
Fotografija	George Heath; Bert Nicholas
Montaža	Terry Banks
Studio	Columbia Pictures
Distribucija	Columbia Pictures
Datum(i) premijere	26. 6. 1946
Trajanje	119 min. (Australija); 99 min. (SAD)
Zemlja	Australija
Jezik	engleski
Budžet	53.000 ₤ ili 73.000 £
Bruto prihod	preko 50.000 ₤ (Australija); 50.000 ₤ (SAD)

Smithy je australijski crno-bijeli pustolovno-biografski film snimljen 1946. godine u režiji Kena G. Halla. Naslovni protagonist, koga tumači Ron Randell, je autralijski avijatičar Charles Kingsford Smith, a radnja prikazuje njegov život i dostignuća, uključujući let avionom Southern Cross sa kojim je 1928. godine preletio Pacifik. Film je nastao po ideji N. P. Perryja, šefa australijske podružnice američkog studija Columbia Pictures, koji je bio uvjeren da će Australija jednog dana postati "Hollywood Britanskog Komonvelta". Snimanje je pomogla australijska vlada, pa je kao rekvizit korišten stvarni Southern Cross, a Smithovi kolege i poznanici su tumačili sami sebe, kao i bivši premijer Billy Hughes. Smithy, iako nije imao potpuno pozitivne kritike, je postigao određen komercijalni uspjeh u Australiji; u SAD ga je, međutim, šef Columbije Harry Cohn značajno skratio i izdao pod naslovom Pacific Adventure (sh. Pacifička avantura). Randellu je, pak, temeljem filma povjerena uloga Bulldoga Drummonda u novoj seriji, čime je on nastavio karijeru u Hollywoodu.

Uloge

Ron Randell ... Charles Kingsford-Smith
Muriel Steinbeck ... Mary Powell
John Tate ... Charles Ulm
Joy Nichols ... Kay Sutton^[5]
Nan Taylor ... Nan Kingsford Smith
John Dunne ... Harold Kingsford Smith
Alec Kellaway ... Kapetan Alan Hancock
John Dease ... Sir Hubert Wilkins
Marshall Crosby ... Arthur Powell
Edward Smith ... Beau Sheil
Alan Herbert ... Tommy Pethybridge
John Fleeting ... Keith Anderson
Joe Valli ... Stringer
G.J. Montgomery-Jackson ... Warner
Gundy Hill ... Lyon
William Morris Hughes ... sam sebe
Kapetan P.G. Taylor ... sam sebe
John Stannage ... sam sebe
Bud Tingwell ... oficir RAAF u kontrolnom tornju

Izvori

↑ „The SCREEN and its STARS.”. Werribee Shire Banner (Vic.: National Library of Australia): str. 4. 13 June 1946. Pristupljeno 19 August 2012.
↑ Hall p172
↑ „£73,000 Spent On "Smithy".”. The Mail (Adelaide: National Library of Australia): str. 8. 9 February 1946. Pristupljeno 19. VIII 2012.
↑ ^4,0 ^4,1 „THE RESEARCH BUREAU HOLDS AN AUTOPSY.”. Sunday Mail (Brisbane: National Library of Australia): str. 11. 17 February 1952. Pristupljeno 28. IV 2013.
↑ „How To Be A Film Star.”. The Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA: National Library of Australia): str. 4. 25 May 1946. Pristupljeno 19 August 2012.

"The Australian Film and Television Companion" — compiled by Tony Harrison — Simon & Schuster Australia, 1994
Hall, Ken G. Directed by Ken G. Hall: Autobiography of an Australian Filmmaker, Lansdowne Press, 1977

Vanjske veze

Smithy na sajtu IMDb
Smithy at Australian Screen Online
Smithy Arhivirano 2005-07-18 na Wayback Machine-u at National Film and Sound Archive
'Smithy' movie Arhivirano 2016-03-03 na Wayback Machine-u – Gould Genealogy
Smithy and the Southern Cross – State Library of NSW Arhivirano 2006-09-18 na Wayback Machine-u
Smithy Arhivirano 2016-07-16 na Wayback Machine-u at Oz Movies
Review of Pacific Adventure at Variety
Review of Smithy at Variety

[1] „The SCREEN and its STARS.”. Werribee Shire Banner (Vic.: National Library of Australia): str. 4. 13 June 1946. Pristupljeno 19 August 2012.

[2] Hall p172

[3] „£73,000 Spent On "Smithy".”. The Mail (Adelaide: National Library of Australia): str. 8. 9 February 1946. Pristupljeno 19. VIII 2012.

[hall-4] 4,0 ^4,1 „THE RESEARCH BUREAU HOLDS AN AUTOPSY.”. Sunday Mail (Brisbane: National Library of Australia): str. 11. 17 February 1952. Pristupljeno 28. IV 2013.

[5] „How To Be A Film Star.”. The Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA: National Library of Australia): str. 4. 25 May 1946. Pristupljeno 19 August 2012.

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p r u Filmovi koje je režirao i producirao Ken G. Hall
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1930-e	Thar She Blows! (1931) (kratki) That's Cricket (1931) (kratki) On Our Selection (1932) The Squatter's Daughter (1933) Cinesound Varieties (1934) The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934) Strike Me Lucky (1934) Grandad Rudd (1935) Thoroughbred (1936) Orphan of the Wilderness (1936) It Isn't Done (1937) Tall Timbers (1937) Lovers and Luggers (1937) The Broken Melody (1938) Let George Do It (1938) Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938) Gone to the Dogs (1939) Come Up Smiling (1939) (samo kao producent) Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939)
1940-e	Dad Rudd, MP (1940) 100,000 Cobbers (1942) (kratki) Kokoda Front Line! (1942) (dokumentarni) South West Pacific (1943) (kratki) Smithy (1946)

p r u Djela čiji je autor Alec Coppel
Drame	Short Circuit (1935) The Stars Foretell (1936) I Killed the Count (1937) Let’s Pretend (1938) Believe it Or Not (1940) Mr Smart Guy (1941) My Friend Lester (1947) A Man About a Dog (1949) The Genius and the Goddess (1957) The Joshua Tree (1958) Oh, Captain! (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Viva Le Difference (1960) The Captain's Paradise (1961) Not in My Bed, You Don’t (1968) Cadenza (1977)
Romani	I Killed the Count (1938) A Man About a Dog (1947) Mr Denning Drives North (1950) The Last Parable (1953) Moment to Moment (1966) Tweedledum and Tweedledee (1967)
Scenariji	Over the Moon (1939) I Killed the Count (1939) Just like a Woman (1939) Smithy (1946) The Brass Monkey (1948) Woman Hater (1948) Obsession (1949) Two on the Tiles (1950) The Smart Aleck (1951) No Highway in the Sky (1951) Mr. Denning Drives North (1952) The Captain's Paradise (1953) Hell Below Zero (1954) The Black Knight (1954) To Catch a Thief (1954) Appointment with a Shadow (1957) Vertigo (1958) The Gazebo (1959) Swordsman of Siena (1962) Moment to Moment (1966) The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) The Statue (1971) A Kiss is Just a Kiss (1971)