Wake in Fright
July 21, 1971•1h 49m•★ 7.2
DramaThriller
“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.
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Director
Ted KotcheffWriters
Cast
Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
Gary Bond
John Grant
Chips Rafferty
Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay
Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson
Dick
Peter Whittle
Joe
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Al Thomas
Tim Hynes
John Meillon
Charlie
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John Armstrong
Atkins
Slim DeGrey
Jarvis
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
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Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook
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Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
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Tex Foote
Stubbs
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Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
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Dawn Lake
Joyce
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Harry Lawrence
Higgins
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Robert McDarra
Pig Eyes
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Owen Moase
1st Controller
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John Dalleen
2nd Controller