Splendid Fellows

Splendid Fellows is a 1934 Australian film from director Beaumont Smith about an Englishman Frank Leighton who comes to Australia. The cast includes Eric Colman, brother of Ronald Colman, and Sir Charles KingsfordSmith, who has a cameo as himself. This was Smiths last film.

Monty persuades his father to buy a plane for the parson and enters it in the Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne. While the race is in progress, Stanhopes old plane crashes and Monty flies to the rescue. A blind prospector, Blind Teddy, flying with the parson regains his sight and recognises a longlost goldfield.The film was shot at the studios of Cinesound Productions in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney in July and August 1934. It was originally entitled The Big Race but was retitled after an American film of that name was announced. ........

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