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Wake in Fright is a 1971 Australian New Wave film based on a novel by Kenneth Cook. It depicts a schoolteacher's moral decline in a brutal outback town, and features a controversial kangaroo hunt scene.
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.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Ted Kotcheff
Wake in Fright. After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets...
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- Ted Kotcheff
- R
- Gary Bond
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.
Watch the trailer of Wake in Fright, a brutal and stunning Australian film about a teacher's downfall in a rough outback town. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1971, this cinematic masterpiece is now available on Madman Films.
- 2 min
- 39.4K
- Madman Films
A film about a schoolteacher's moral decline in a brutal Australian town. Watch the graphic scenes of kangaroo hunting and the cast and crew of this Australian New Wave 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.
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