Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright

Released on
Drama, Thriller
Runtime
109 mins
(284 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Gary Bond
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Chips Rafferty
  • Sylvia Kay
  • Jack Thompson
  • Peter Whittle
  • Al Thomas
  • John Meillon
  • John Armstrong
  • Slim DeGrey
  • Maggie Dence
  • Norm Erskine
  • Owen Moase
  • John Dalleen
  • Buster Fiddess
  • Tex Foote
  • Colin Hughes
  • Jacko Jackson
  • Nancy Knudsen
  • Dawn Lake
  • Harry Lawrence
  • Robert McDarra
  • Carlo Manchini
  • Liam Reynolds
  • Nelson

Director

  • Ted Kotcheff

Producers

  • George Willoughby

Screenwriter

  • Evan Jones

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