Wake in Fright (1971)

Name: Wake in Fright
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1971-07-21
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson

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.

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Released 1971-07-21 · 109 min · Drama, Thriller

Directed by 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
Al Thomas as Tim Hynes
John Meillon as Charlie
John Armstrong as Atkins
Slim DeGrey as Jarvis
Maggie Dence as Receptionist
Norm Erskine as Joe the Cook
Owen Moase as 1st Controller
John Dalleen as 2nd Controller
Buster Fiddess as Charlie Jones