Wake in Fright 1971

Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

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R
Drama Thriller

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

Release Date 1971-07-21
Runtime 1h 49m
Directors Ted Kotcheff, Brian West, Howard Rubie
Producers George Willoughby, Howard G. Barnes, Bill Harmon, Maurice Singer
Writers Kenneth Cook, Evan Jones