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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.
The premise of an inescapable existence is a compelling one, and Wake in Fright creates such a conflict in a wide-open, sprawling desert where the bars are made of human frailty...
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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 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.
Wake in Fright - Official Trailer. Brutal, uncompromising and stunning #WakeInFright tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town...
