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  Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba 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...

114 Minutes

Evan Jones (screenplay)
Kenneth Cook

Ted Kotcheff

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 (as Slim De Grey)
Maggie Dence....Receptionist
Norm Erskine....Joe the Cook (as Norman Erskine)
Owen Moase....1st Controller
John Dalleen....2nd Controller
Buster Fiddess....Charlie Jones

Contains strong scenes of kangaroo hunting and slaughter

Genres

Drama

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