Directed by:
Ted KotcheffScreenplay:
Evan JonesCinematography:
Brian WestComposer:
John ScottCast:
Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, John Meillon, Peter Whittle, Nancy Knudsen, Carlo Manchini, Maggie DencePlots(1)
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have a taste of dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here." Balanced on a knife-edge between social realism and existential horror, this disturbing, subversive portrayal of Australia's cultural underbelly failed to find a wide audience on its original release, but has since become established as a seminal cornerstone of the Australian cinema. A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in "the Yabba" may take him on a path darker than ever expected. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Donald Pleasence
UK
Best movies:
The Great Escape (1963)
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Gary Bond
UK
Best movies:
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Zulu (1964)
Chips Rafferty
Australia
Best movies:
Wake in Fright (1971)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Kangaroo (1952)
Sylvia Kay
UK
Best movies:
Rapture (1965)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
Jack Thompson
Australia
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Short Circuit (1986)
John Meillon
Australia
Best movies:
The Camel Boy (1984)
The Longest Day (1962)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Peter Whittle
Best movies:
Wake in Fright (1971)
Ned Kelly (1970)
Nancy Knudsen
Best movies:
Wake in Fright (1971)
Carlo Manchini
Best movies:
Wake in Fright (1971)
Walkabout (1971)
Because I Said So (2007)
Maggie Dence
Best movies:
Wake in Fright (1971)
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
Look Both Ways (2005)