Wake in Fright, 1971. Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kaye, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, and Al Thomas. SYNOPSIS: After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent. When […]
Essential Cinema: Wake In Fright
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at the Australian outback classic, Wake In Fright… Occasionally I’ll see a film which almost escaped attention upon initial release. Perhaps a great piece of cinema that didn’t quite stick upon its release. Wake In Fright, a key landmark in Australian cinema never quite captured the world outside the […]
