![]() Rankin is arrested and the townspeople chip in to buy Smiley a bike. His life is saved by a boundary rider, Bill McVitty ( Guy Doleman). ![]() Smiley accidentally knocks him out and runs away to the bush, where he is bitten by a snake. Smiley's father steals his savings and loses it playing two-up. Smiley unwittingly helps the local publican, Jim Rankin ( John McCallum), sell opium to aborigines who live in a camp near the town. Smiley takes on various odd jobs, showing enterprise, hard work, and persistence in slowly accumulating the considerable sum (four pound) needed, despite getting involved in a number of pranks, including getting into trouble with the local law enforcement in the figure of Sergeant Flaxman ( Chips Rafferty). He decides to try to save up enough money to buy a coveted bicycle. Smiley is always getting into trouble with his best friend Joey (Bruce Archer). His father is an alcoholic drover who is a poor provider for the family, his mother works as a laundress to make ends meet. Smiley ( Colin Petersen) is a mischievous boy who lives in the small country town of Murrumbilla (based on Augathella ).
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