Wake in Fright

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

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1971 / 109min.

Rating7.4

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Genres

Drama

Thriller

Synopsis

A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

Directors

Actors

Donald Pleasence

Chips Rafferty

John Meillon

Slim DeGrey

Jack Thompson

Maggie Dence

John Armstrong

Carlo Manchini

Robert McDarra

Sylvia Kay

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