Wake in Fright (1971)
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
- Date of release
- 1971-07-21
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (360)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
Casting
- Donald Pleasence — Doc Tydon
- Gary Bond — John Grant
- Chips Rafferty — Jock Crawford
- Sylvia Kay — Janette Hynes
- Jack Thompson — Dick
- Peter Whittle — Joe
- Al Thomas — Tim Hynes
- John Meillon — Charlie
- John Armstrong — Atkins
- Slim DeGrey — Jarvis
- Maggie Dence — Receptionist
- Norm Erskine — Joe the Cook
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