Wake in Fright
1971 · Movie · 1h 49m · R
DramaThriller
"Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here."
Overview
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
85/100
Key crew
- Ted KotcheffDirector
- Evan JonesScreenplay
- John ScottOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Donald PleasenceDoc Tydon
- Gary BondJohn Grant
- Chips RaffertyJock Crawford
- Sylvia KayJanette Hynes
- Jack ThompsonDick
- Peter WhittleJoe
- Al ThomasTim Hynes
- John MeillonCharlie
- John ArmstrongAtkins
- Slim DeGreyJarvis
- Maggie DenceReceptionist
- Norm ErskineJoe the Cook
Stills
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Themes
australiabased on novel or bookgamblingbeeralcoholismteachermining townoutbackhuntdrunkennessaustralian outbackchristmas