Wake in Fright

Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

Wake in Fright (1971)

Timing: 1:49 (109 min)

7.4/10
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Actors and characters

Release date

1971-07-21

Country

Australia, United Kingdom, United States

Production

United Artists, NLT, Group W

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

Revenue

$50 394

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Director

Ted Kotcheff

Actors

Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Meillon, John Armstrong, Slim DeGrey
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Scenario

Producer

George Willoughby, Howard G. Barnes, Bill Harmon

Operator

Brian West

Composer

John Scott

Artist

Audition

John Merrick, Jill Dempster

Editing

Anthony Buckley
All team (28)

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

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