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Wake in Fright (1971)

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

7.2(336)1h 49mJuly 21, 1971

Ted Kotcheff

Director

Evan Jones

Writer

Rate

Diary

Overview

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Cast

Donald Pleasence

Doc Tydon

Gary Bond

John Grant

Chips Rafferty

Jock Crawford

Sylvia Kay

Janette Hynes

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Maggie Dence

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Status: Released
Original language: English
Release date: July 21, 1971
Budget: $750,000
Revenue: $371,717
Production: NLT, Group W, United Artists
Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America

Keywords

australiabased on novel or bookgamblingbeeralcoholismteacher

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