Wake in Fright
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...
R
HD
Drama, Thriller
1971
114 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Wake in Fright
- Duration : 114 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Evan Jones (screenplay), Kenneth Cook (based on the novel by)
- Directors : Ted Kotcheff min
- Imdb : 7.8 (4327 votes)
- Tomatoes : 4 (2933 votes)
- Actors : Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Movie Storyline
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...