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Wake in Fright (1971)

Directed by Ted Kotcheff

Drama | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, archstanton43, KitchenSink, bmargherito, sleestakk

Overview

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.

Rated R | Length 109 minutes

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Gary Bond | Donald Pleasence | Chips Rafferty | Sylvia Kay | Jack Thompson | Peter Whittle | Al Thomas | John Meillon | John Armstrong | Slim DeGrey | Maggie Dence | Norm Erskine | Owen Moase | John Dalleen | Buster Fiddess | Tex Foote | Colin Hughes | Jacko Jackson | Nancy Knudsen | Dawn Lake | Harry Lawrence | Robert McDarra | Carlo Manchini | Liam Reynolds | Nelson

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