Wake in Fright
- Released on
Drama, Thriller
•- Runtime
- 109 mins
(279 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.
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
