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Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant (Gary Bond), a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough Australian outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, 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.
Original Release
07/21/1971
US Release
09/22/1971
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Donald Pleasence | Doc Tydon |
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 |
Directors
Writers
Ted Kotcheff, Kenneth Cook, Essam El Erian
Cast
Name | Character |
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Donald Pleasence | Doc Tydon |
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 |
Norman Erskine | Joe the Cook |
Owen Moase | 1st Controller / First Controller |
John Dalleen | 2nd Controller / Second Controller |
Buster Fiddess | Charlie Jones |
Tex Foote | Stubbs |
Colin Hughes | Stockman |
Jacko Jackson | Van Driver |
Nancy Knudsen | Robyn |
Dawn Lake | Joyce |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Howard G. Barnes | Executive Producer |
Bill Harmon | Executive Producer |
Maurice Singer | Producer |
George Willoughby | Producer |