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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.
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
A disquieting classic of Australian cinema, Wake in Fright surveys a landscape both sun-drenched and ruthlessly dark. After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John...
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- Ted Kotcheff
- R
- Gary Bond
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Summaries. 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. John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job.
Oct 31, 2012 · Directed by. Ted Kotcheff. "Wake in Fright" is a film made in Australia in 1971 and almost lost forever. It's not dated. It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing. It comes billed as a "horror film" and contains a great deal of horror, but all of the horror is human and brutally realistic.
Oct 4, 2012 · “Wake In Fright”: Prepare to Be Disturbed, Mate. By James Guida. October 4, 2012. In a two-building town in the Australian desert, a young schoolteacher in suit and tie lights a cigarette and...
Brutal, uncompromising and stunning #WakeInFright tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to s...
- 2 min
- 30.4K
- Madman Films