Wake in Fright (Outback)
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- Original title
- Wake in Fright (Outback)
- Year
- 1971
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
- Australia
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Evan Jones. Novel: Kenneth Cook
- Cast
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- Gary Bond
- Donald Pleasence
- Chips Rafferty
- Jack Thompson
- Sylvia Kay
- Al Thomas
- Peter Whittle
- John Meillon
- Al Thomas
- John Armstrong
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Australia-United States;
- Genre
- Drama. Thriller | Alcoholism. Gambling
- Synopsis
- Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...
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