🎥️ Adventure Movie: Smithy (1946) English Full Movie | Watch Boldly!

[@robdyer33]

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.

[@joseo.5721]

Outstanding movie, been to Australia a few times, while in the USN, beautiful country and beautiful, kind people, thank you for posting this movie !!!!

[@tonyfromaustralia21]

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

[@oddsteinardybvad-raneng]

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.

[@el_aleman]

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[@mickeybitsko1676]

No one cares 😺

[@garyrogers6761]

@@mickeybitsko1676 You are as wrong as only the 'stupid' can be !

[@richardbarrow4620]

​@@mickeybitsko1676.......actually, I care.

[@simontaylor2319]

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

[@freemarketjoe9869]

It's a great thing they made this movie back then to remind us all of these amazing people and times.

[@delzworld2007]

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.

[@marknelson5929]

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.

[@solomon-uu5xh]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐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).

[@serratograffiti]

For aviation fans. Very entertaining.

[@jamesavenell]

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.

[@Richard-rz8gt]

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.

[@oddsteinardybvad-raneng]

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.

[@Richard-rz8gt]

@@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

[@Richard-rz8gt]

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.

[@mtnman3MTA3]

Gipsy Moth Circles the World is a great book about Chichester’s solo circumnavigation in a small sailboat.

[@Richard-rz8gt]

@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.

[@bobyouel7674]

REspect and a great film

[@Holland41]

Great film. Lovely to see an old Boomerang representing "Lady Southern Cross."

[@izifaddag8221]

Original title Smithy in 1946. Also known as Pacific Adventure.

[@garydavis2688]

Released in the UK as Southern Cross

[@Ironwench68]

The Lockheed Orion is actually a Commonwealth aircraft "Boomerang MkII", a military fighter produced in Australia.

[@JamesCruise-j8l]

Australia 🇦🇺

[@freemarketjoe9869]

You could certainly make the case the government, politics of rival aviation companies with better connections cost Smith and Pethybridge

[@WilliamSmith-zk4tj]

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

[@el_aleman]

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[@KimBowen-oz3gz]

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

[@jeanwilliquet4035]

No credits??

[@jackturner8911]

What does NFSA stand for?

[@jackeagles1637]

National Film and Sound Archives (Australia)

[@rdbjrseattle]

The Southern Cross, which disappeared in 1931, was found by a hiker in 1958 off course and in wrong direction in the Snowy Mountains.

[@oddsteinardybvad-raneng]

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

[@rdbjrseattle]

@ The Southern Cloud. A Fokker Trimotor “copy@

[@bushranger51]

@@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.

[@stephengeorge7510]

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.

[@tonysadler5290]

Flying clothes in the Mess - not on.

[@JamesCruise-j8l]

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.

[@c3aloha]

I was wondering why they didn’t seem to have Australian accents.

[@jamesavenell]

That was the type of speech in films of those days mate. Just an example of it's period.

[@Elitist20]

That was the way actors were taught to speak. You rarely heard real Australian accents on film till the 50s and 60s.

[@el_aleman]

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[@fettersbuiltco]

Very good movie!