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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.
A disquieting classic of Australian cinema, Wake in Fright surveys a landscape both sun-drenched and ruthlessly dark. Read Critics Reviews
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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...
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...
May 4, 2021 · Wake in Fright premiered at Cannes in 1971 but met with a shocked reaction. It largely fell into obscurity for 40 years, yet is now considered a classic.
Oct 31, 2012 · "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.
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.
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
Oct 5, 2012 · A Deliverance -flavored Australian horror tale whose out-of-his-depth protagonist doesn’t have the benefit of buddies traveling alongside him, Ted Kotcheff ‘s Wake in Fright envisions the dark...
