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Wake in Fright

“Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.”

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

Directed by Ted Kotcheff, Howard G. Barnes, Bill Harmon

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341 votes

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Status

Released

July 21, 1971

Runtime

1h 49m

Language

English

Budget → Revenue

$750K → $371.7K

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