Wake in Fright (1971)
With Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, John Meillon
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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