Wake in Fright
1971·Movie·1h 49m18
Drama, Thriller
7.2 / 10 (364 votes)
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
- Directed by
- Ted Kotcheff
- Original language
- English
- Released
- 21 July 1971
Where to Watch
Availability in the US · Subtitle and audio track data
Cast
Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
Gary Bond
John Grant
Chips Rafferty
Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay
Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson
Dick
Peter Whittle
Joe
- AT
Al Thomas
Tim Hynes
John Meillon
Charlie
- JA
John Armstrong
Atkins
Slim DeGrey
Jarvis
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
- NE
Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook