march 2012
Sunday 25th
Wake
In
Fright
(M)
Have another beer…
John is an outback teacher, on his way back to Sydney for the summer break. En route he arrives in the rough outback-mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight. But his one night stretches to five as he plunges headlong toward his own destruction.
Alcohol, roo shooting and gambling- the terror of the outback is depicted with brutal enthusiasm in Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film that was re-released recently after an extensive search- the only print of the film found in a warehouse in Pittsburgh, marked “for destruction” An Australian masterpiece that has been miraculously rediscovered.
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Cast
Chips Rafferty, Donald Pleasance, Jack Thompson.
Classification: M | Length: 114 min | Original release year: 1971
