Movie
Wake in Fright
Overview
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Details
- Release date
- 1971-07-21
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- NLT, Group W, United Artists
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Donald Pleasence as Doc Tydon
- Gary Bond as John Grant
- Chips Rafferty as Jock Crawford
- Sylvia Kay as Janette Hynes
- Jack Thompson as Dick
- Peter Whittle as Joe
- Al Thomas as Tim Hynes
- John Meillon as Charlie
- John Armstrong as Atkins
- Slim DeGrey as Jarvis
- Maggie Dence as Receptionist
- Norm Erskine as Joe the Cook
Crew
- Ted Kotcheff - Director
- Evan Jones - Screenplay
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