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)
Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, 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. (Madman 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)