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Wake in Fright
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
Jul 21, 1971 · 1h 49m
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Drama
Thriller
PLOT
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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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
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
DETAILS
Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$750,000
Revenue
$371,717
Production
NLT Productions, Group W
Country
AU
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