Wake in Fright

Release Year
1971
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama
Thriller
Directed By
Ted Kotcheff
Wake in Fright

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.

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