Wake in Fright (1971)

US:: R Drama Thriller

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 as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into his own destruction.

Updated May 10 2020

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Runtime: 114 mins Revenue: $50,394 Rating: 7.5 Tag Line: Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

Cast

Donald Pleasence

Doc Tydon

Jack Thompson

Dick

John Meillon

Charlie

Chips Rafferty

Jock Crawford

Maggie Dence

Receptionist

Slim DeGrey

Jarvis

Gary Bond

John Grant

Sylvia Kay

Janette Hynes