Wake in Fright
1971
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Written by
- Kenneth Cook, Evan Jones
- Produced by
- George Willoughby
- Composer
- John Scott
- Cinematographer
- Brian West
- Editor
- Anthony Buckley
- Studios
- United Artists, Group W, NLT
- Origin country
- Australia
- Production countries
- Australia, United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Language
- en
- Rating
- R
- Also known as
- Outback
- TMDB
- 7.3/10 (331 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 96% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 85/100
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (15,272 votes)
Cast
Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
Gary Bond
John Grant
Chips Rafferty
Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay
Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson
Dick
Peter Whittle
Joe
Al Thomas
Tim Hynes
John Meillon
Charlie
John Armstrong
Atkins
Slim DeGrey
Jarvis
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook
Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
Tex Foote
Stubbs
Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
Dawn Lake
Joyce
Harry Lawrence
Higgins
Robert McDarra
Pig Eyes
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Podcasts
The Evolution of Horror — NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 8 - Wake In Fright (1971) & Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
