Wake in Fright (1971)
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.
Key facts
- Released:
- 1971-07-21
- Runtime:
- 109 min
- Genres:
- Drama, Thriller
- Director:
- Ted Kotcheff
- Top cast:
- Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle
- Original language:
- EN
- TMDB rating:
- 7.2/10 from 336 votes
- Bynge Score:
- 7.0/10