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Wake in Fright. Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook 's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who ...
Oct 9, 1971 · Wake in Fright: Directed by Ted Kotcheff. With Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay. After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Ted Kotcheff
- 1971-10-09
Oct 13, 2012 · At the time of production of “Wake in Fright,” Kotcheff was a Canadian filmmaker known for his austere British dramas, things like the civil rights drama “Two Gentlemen Sharing” and the ...
“Wake in Fright” is a film that doesn’t so much fray nerves, as it does flay the skin clear off; roasting the remnants of humanity in the unforgiving outback heat. Director Ted Kotcheff’s Australian New Wave thriller was one of only two films to ever screen twice at Cannes; encoring when its restored 2009 release arrived with an ...
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- NLT, Group W, United Artists
- Ted Kotcheff
Oct 4, 2012 · The scene is from “Wake in Fright,” a film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and released in 1971. It is routinely and very justifiably described as “disturbing.”. The novelist Peter Temple has ...
- James Guida
Ted Kotcheff. William Theodore Kotcheff (born April 7, 1931) is a Canadian director and producer of film and television. [1] He is known for directing such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture Wake in Fright (1971), the Mordechai Richler adaptations The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (1985), the ...
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Mar 26, 2014 · Kotcheff and Leone would become friends later, after sharing jury duties at Montreal’s Le Festival des Films du Monde in 1979, but the Canadian is loathe to admit any direct influence, nor, he claims, did he ever think of Wake In Fright as a western, despite what he calls its "frontier mentality – not dissimilar from what the people in the ...
