Wake in Fright (1971) Image
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Summary: 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 his one night stretches to five and he 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...
Runtime: 114 min
Official Site: http://drafthousefilms.com/film/wake-in-fright
Production: Group W
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Countries: USA, Australia
Language: English
Director Credit
Ted Kotcheff Director
Writer Credit
Evan Jones Writer
Kenneth Cook Writer
Cast Credit
Al Thomas Tim Hynes
Buster Fiddess Charlie Jones
Chips Rafferty Jock Crawford
Donald Pleasence 'Doc' Tydon
Gary Bond John Grant
Jack Thompson Dick
John Armstrong Atkins
John Dalleen Second Controller
John Meillon Charlie
Maggie Dence Receptionist
Norm Erskine Joe The Cook
Owen Moase First Controller
Peter Whittle Joe
Slim DeGrey Jarvis
Sylvia Kay Janette Hynes
Producer Credit
Bill Harmon Executive Producer
George Willoughby Producer
Howard G. Barnes Executive Producer
Maurice Singer Associate Producer
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