Wake in Fright
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Meillon, John Armstrong, Slim DeGrey
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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
- Original language
- English
- Screenplay
- Evan Jones, Kenneth Cook, Ted Kotcheff
- Music
- John Scott
- Cinematography
- Brian West, Peter Hannan
- Cast
- Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Meillon, John Armstrong, Slim DeGrey, Maggie Dence, Norm Erskine
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Updated July 22, 2026
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