Wake in Fright

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

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Creators and cast

Directors

Ted Kotcheff

Producers

George Willoughby, Howard G. Barnes, Bill Harmon

Cast

Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle

Studio

NLT Productions, Group W