
Wake in Fright
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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About Wake in Fright
- Directors
- Ted Kotcheff
- Cast
- Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Content rating
- R
- Original language
- English
- Production countries
- Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Status
- Released
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