Brutal, uncompromising and stunning Wake in Fright tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub...
However, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and 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...
Duration
0 min 31 sec
Views
9,539
Posted On
November 08, 2009
0 min 31 sec
Views
9,539
Posted On
November 08, 2009
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Writer
Evan Jones
Studio
United Artists
Release
October 10, 1971
Ted Kotcheff
Writer
Evan Jones
Studio
United Artists
Release
October 10, 1971
Cast
Chips Rafferty
Donald Pleasence
Gary Bond
Jack Thompson
Sylvia Kay
Chips Rafferty
Donald Pleasence
Gary Bond
Jack Thompson
Sylvia Kay
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