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| director = [[James Gilbert (producer)|James Gilbert]]
| producer = James Grafton<br>Jack Neary
| writer = Stan Mars
| based_on =
| starring = [[Harry Secombe]]
| music = [[Peter Knight (composer)|Peter Knight]]
| cinematography = Brian West
| editing = [[Anthony Buckley]]<br>Barry Peters
| studio = Immigrant Productions
| distributor = [[British Empire Films]]
| released = {{Film date|1972|11|18|df=yes}}
| runtime = 92 mins
| country = Australia<br>United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = A$400,000<ref name="pike">Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998 p267</ref>
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'''''Sunstruck''''', also known by the [[alternative title]] of '''''Education of Stanley Evans''''', is a 1972 British–Australian [[comedy film]] directed by [[James Gilbert (producer)|James Gilbert]] and starring [[Harry Secombe]], [[Maggie Fitzgibbon]] and [[John Meillon]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116055940/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52819 BFI.org]</ref>

==Plot==
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, is very proud of the choir that he's formed with his pupils. But when the girl of his dreams – a new gym teacher – marries a fellow teacher, he decides to leave and migrate to Australia for a better life 'in the sun'.

From Sydney, he is assigned to a small school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs, living in a small room over the local hotel run by Sal and Mick. All the kids live in farms throughout the district.

Homesick, and constantly playing recordings of his original school choir, he decides to form a choir of his new pupils, who haven't been taking him seriously and play pranks on him.

Mick secretly decides that the kids should enter a schools choir competition in Sydney, and when the application is accepted, Stan has only a few weeks left to train the group. They travel by bus to Sydney accompanied by Shirley, a feisty young lady who has taken a shine to Stan. But Shirley's brother doesn't want his sister involved with 'a fat little Welsh Pom', and makes clear his feelings to Stan before they leave.

The choir win a special commendation.

On his return, Stan marries Shirley.<ref>Readle p. 184</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Harry Secombe]] – Stanley Evans (final film role)
* [[Maggie Fitzgibbon]] – Shirley Marshall
* [[John Meillon]] – Mick Cassidy
* [[Peter Whittle (actor)|Peter Whittle]] – Pete Marshall
* [[Dennis Jordan]] – Steve Cassidy
* [[Dawn Lake]] – Sal Cassidy
* [[Bobby Limb]] – Bill
* [[Norm Erskine]] – Norm
* [[Jack Allen (Australian actor)|Jack Allen]] – Banjo
* [[Roger Cox (actor)|Roger Cox]]- Ben
* [[Tommy Mack]] – Gunboat
*[[Derek Nimmo]]
*[[Stuart Wagstaff]] – announcer
*[[Benita Collings]] – Alice

==Production==
The film was inspired by a poster used by the [[New South Wales]] government to attract teachers from Britain, where a teacher wearing swimmers and an academic board stands on [[Bondi Beach]]. It was designed as a vehicle for [[Harry Secombe]] and was shot near [[Parkes, New South Wales|Parkes]] in New South Wales from January 1972. The budget mostly came from United States and British sources, with $100,000 from the [[Screen Australia|Australian Film Development Corporation]].<ref name="pike"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101753894 |title=FEATURES WRITERS' WORLD BOOKS Dusty bush setting for former Goon's film. |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=22 January 1972 |accessdate=10 December 2013 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

The pupils seen acting at choir practice in the early part of the film were from [[Afon Taf High School]] in Troedyrhiw. The choir recorded the entire choral soundtrack at the school and it was used in both the Welsh and Australian sequences. The beginning of the film used locations in two Welsh mining villages; [[Treharris]] and [[Trelewis]] near [[Merthyr Tydfil]]. The name of the school is Webster Street School, Treharris which has since been demolished for housing.

==Release==
The film did not perform particularly well commercially or critically.<ref name="pike"/>

==Bibliography==
* Readle, Eric. ''History and heartburn: the saga of Australian film, 1896–1978''. Associated University Presses, 1981.

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0069330}}
*{{Rotten Tomatoes|sunstruck_1972}}
*[http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/sunstruck/ ''Sunstruck''] at [[Australian Screen Online]]
*[http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/sunstruck ''Sunstrucl''] at Oz Movies

[[Category:1972 films]]
[[Category:Australian comedy films]]
[[Category:1972 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films about educators]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films set in New South Wales]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
[[Category:1970s British films]]

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