“Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.”
Wake in Fright
7.2
337 votes·1971
·1h 49m
·MovieDramaThriller
Overview
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Commercial Verdict
Disaster
Revenue vs Budget0.5x
0x1x2x3x4x5x
Significant financial loss
Keywords
australiabased on novel or bookgamblingbeeralcoholismteachermining townoutbackhuntdrunkennessaustralian outbackchristmas
Cast
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
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook
Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
Tex Foote
Stubbs
Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
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