A Welsh choir master in the Aussie outback? This fish-out-of-water comedy is gloriously off-key.
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
Acting
Harry Secombe's endearing, bumbling warmth carries the whole thing.
Score
The choir numbers are surprisingly stirring, cheese and all.
Director
James Gilbert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Harry Secombe was better known as a Goon Show comedian and singer; this was a rare leading film role for him.
The film captures a specific 1970s Australian push for population growth through British immigration—Stanley's 'ten pound Pom' experience was thousands' reality.
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