Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...
| Release Date: | May 1971 |
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| Genre: | Thriller / Drama |
| Awards: | 1 nomination |
| Cast: | Donald Pleasence ('Doc' Tydon), Gary Bond (John Grant), Chips Rafferty (Jock Crawford), Sylvia Kay (Janette Hynes), Jack Thompson (Dick), Peter Whittle (Joe), Al Thomas (Tim Hynes), John Meillon (Charlie), John Armstrong (Atkins), Slim DeGrey (Jarvis), Maggie Dence (Receptionist), Norm Erskine (Joe the cook), Owen Moase (First controller), John Dalleen (Second controller), Buster Fiddess (Charlie Jones), Tex Foote (Stubbs), Colin Hughes (Stockman), Jacko Jackson (Van Driver), Nancy Knudsen (Robyn), Dawn Lake (Joyce), Harry Lawrence (Higgins), Robert McDarra (Pig Eyes (as Bob McDarra)), Carlo Manchini (Poker player), Liam Reynolds (Miner), Gordon Piper (Two up player) |