Drama ·Thriller ·Horror · Australia · 1971 · 1h 49m

Wake in Fright

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Director
Ted Kotcheff
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
Crew
Brian West — Director of Photography Anthony Buckley — Editor John Scott — Original Music Composer Evan Jones — Screenplay Kenneth Cook — Novel George Willoughby — Producer
Tagline

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

Synopsis

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

Trailer Wake in Fright — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
australiabased on novel or bookgamblingbeeralcoholismteachermining townoutbackhuntdrunkennessaustralian outbackchristmas
Key Collaborators
Ted Kotcheff Director Brian West Director of Photography Anthony Buckley Editor John Scott Original Music Composer Evan Jones Screenplay Kenneth Cook Novel George Willoughby Producer Ron Williams Costume Design
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