Wake in Fright poster
Director Ted Kotcheff
Screenplay Evan Jones

Wake in Fright

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

Release Date: 1971-07-21

Duration: 109 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Donald Pleasence
    Doc Tydon
  • Jack Thompson
    Dick
  • John Meillon
    Charlie
  • Chips Rafferty
    Jock Crawford
  • Gary Bond
    John Grant
  • Sylvia Kay
    Janette Hynes
  • Maggie Dence
    Receptionist
  • Slim DeGrey
    Jarvis
  • Peter Whittle
    Joe
  • John Armstrong
    Atkins