Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
Wake in Fright (1971)
"Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here."
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Overview
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Ted Kotcheff
Director
Evan Jones
Screenplay
Top Billed Cast
Gary Bond
John Grant
Chips Rafferty
Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay
Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson
Dick
Peter Whittle
Joe
Al Thomas
Tim Hynes
John Meillon
Charlie
John Armstrong
Atkins
Slim DeGrey
Jarvis
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook
Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
Tex Foote
Stubbs
Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
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