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Smiley Gets a Gun and Pagewood Studios. The film was less successful than its predecessor and a proposed third film, "Smiley Wins the Ashes", was never made. Smiley Gets a Gun Smiley Gets a Gun is a 1958 Australian film in CinemaScope and Technicolor directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Sybil Thorndike and Chips Rafferty. It is the sequel to the 1956 film "Smiley". A young boy named Smiley desperately wants a gun. A deal is made between him and Sergeant Flaxman that if he gets 8 nicks (marks on a certain tree) for his good deeds he will get a £2 rifle. He