Wake in Fright

About Wake in Fright

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Wake in Fright is a 1971 thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff. Released in July 1971, it runs 109 minutes.

Donald Pleasence stars as Doc Tydon, Gary Bond as John Grant, Chips Rafferty as Jock Crawford, and Sylvia Kay as Janette Hynes. Written by Evan Jones and Ted Kotcheff. It is adapted from a novel.

Members will find alcoholism, australia, gambling, and drunkenness in it. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Fandor.

All of Us Strangers, Fortress, and Killing Them Softly make useful companions to Wake in Fright. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 360 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.