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Wake in Fright

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

7.3 average rating
7.3
English / 109 MIN. / 1971

The Genres

The 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.

The Cast

Gary BondDonald PleasenceChips RaffertySylvia KayJack ThompsonPeter WhittleAl ThomasJohn MeillonJohn ArmstrongSlim DeGreyMaggie DenceNorm ErskineOwen MoaseJohn DalleenBuster FiddessTex FooteColin HughesJacko JacksonNancy KnudsenDawn LakeHarry LawrenceRobert McDarraCarlo ManchiniLiam ReynoldsNelson

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