Wake in Fright
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
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Overview
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Box Office$50,394
Awards1 nomination total
Cast
Donald PleasenceDoc Tydon
Gary BondJohn Grant
Chips RaffertyJock Crawford
Sylvia KayJanette Hynes
Jack ThompsonDick
Peter WhittleJoeAl ThomasTim Hynes
John MeillonCharlieJohn ArmstrongAtkins
Slim DeGreyJarvis
Maggie DenceReceptionistNorm ErskineJoe the Cook
Crew
DirectorTed Kotcheff
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Details
Release DateJuly 21, 1971
Budget$750,000
Revenue$371,717
LanguagesEnglish
StudiosNLT, Group W, United Artists
