The Flying Doctor is a 1936 Australian-British drama film directed by Miles Mander and starring Charles Farrell, Mary Maguire and James Raglan.

[5]On his wedding night, Sandy Nelson (Charles Farrell) decides to abandon his young bride, Jenny (Mary Maguire) to go work in Sydney as a painter on the Harbour Bridge.

Sandy gets in a brawl at a cricket match, serves time in prison, then heads for the outback and discovers gold.

When he realises Jenny loves Vaughan, Sandy decides to kill himself, leaving his fortune to the Flying Doctors.

Gaumont British provided several personnel for the film, including the director, writer, cinematographer, unit manager and sound recordist.

[14] National Productions also hired Englishman Errol Hinds to be head of the camera department for two years.

[21] Box office receipts were poor but the release of the film led to a flood of donations to the flying doctors.

[26] The Flying Doctor was thought to have been lost until workmen clearing a building site in the Wollongong suburb of Fig Tree uncovered a film vault.

They cut through the steel door using an oxy torch – somehow avoiding igniting the highly flammable nitrate film inside – and loaded a truck with the contents to take away for disposal.