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Sunstruck (1972)

Sunstruck
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Length 1h32
Rating59% 2.956712.956712.956712.956712.95671

Sunstruck is a 1972 British-Australian comedy film directed by James Gilbert and starring Harry Secombe, Maggie Fitzgibbon and John Meillon.

Synopsis

Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney. It is also known by the alternative title of Education of Stanley Evans.

Actors

Harry Secombe

(Stanley Evans)John Meillon

(Mick Cassidy)Donald Houston
Bobby Limb

(Bill)Derek Nimmo
Stuart Wagstaff

(announcer)
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