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.
Title | Wake in Fright |
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Year | 1971 |
Genre | Drama, Thriller |
Country | Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America |
Studio | NLT, Group W, United Artists |
Cast | Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle |
Crew | Ted Kotcheff (Director), George Willoughby (Producer), Brian West (Director of Photography), Anthony Buckley (Editor), Maurice Singer (Associate Producer), Evan Jones (Screenplay) |
Keyword | australia, based on novel or book, gambling, beer, teacher, mining town, outback, hunt, drunkenness, australian outback, christmas, kangaroo, coin toss, independent film |
Release | Jul 21, 1971 |
Runtime | 109 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 7.32 / 10 by 286 users |
Popularity | 15 |
Budget | 0 |
Revenue | 50,394 |
Language | English |