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Wake in Fright

“Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.”

Director
Ted Kotcheff
Year
1971
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
R
Release
1971
Language
en
Country
AU

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01 · Overview

What it’s about

The story

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

  • #christmas
  • #alcoholism
  • #drunkenness
  • #coin toss
  • #based on novel or book
  • #kangaroo
  • #australian outback
  • #hunt
  • #gambling
  • #mining town
  • #beer
  • #australia

  • Directed by

    Ted Kotcheff

  • Written by

    Ted Kotcheff & Evan Jones

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