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Wake in Fright

Name: Wake in Fright
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1971
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

1971 · Directed by Ted Kotcheff · 109 min · Drama · Thriller · 36 frames

Tagline

Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

Crew

Screenplay: Evan Jones, Ted Kotcheff
Cinematography: Brian West
Edited by: Anthony Buckley
Music: John Scott
Produced by: George Willoughby

Cast

Donald Pleasence as Doc Tydon
Gary Bond as John Grant
Chips Rafferty as Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay as Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson as Dick
Peter Whittle as Joe
Al Thomas as Tim Hynes
John Meillon as Charlie
John Armstrong as Atkins
Slim DeGrey as Jarvis

Production

Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English
Studios: NLT Productions, Group W
Budget: $750,000
Box office: $371,717
Themes: australia, based on novel or book, gambling, beer, alcoholism, teacher, mining town, hunt, drunkenness, australian outback

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