Wake in Fright
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.
Year: 1971
Studio: NLT, Group W, United Artists
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle
Crew: Ted Kotcheff (Director), George Willoughby (Producer), Anthony Buckley (Editor), Maurice Singer (Associate Producer), Howard G. Barnes (Executive Producer), Jill Dempster (Casting)
Runtime: 109 minutes
Release: Jul 21, 1971
IMDb: 7.30/10 by 292 users
Popularity: 4
Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 50
Keyword : australia, based on novel or book, gambling, beer, teacher, mining town, outback, hunt, drunkenness, australian outback, christmas, kangaroo, coin toss, independent film
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