Released
Wake in Fright
July 21 1971 (over 53 years ago)Rating
73
Based on
286 reviews
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
- Director: Ted Kotcheff
- Writer: Evan Jones
- Genres: Drama, Thriller
- Runtime: 1 h 49 m
- Box office: $50,394
- Countries: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Companies: NLT, Group W, United Artists
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.
