Wake in Fright (1971)
Wake in Fright (1971)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Gary Bond
John Grant
Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
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
Owen Moase
First Controller
John Dalleen
Second Controller
Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
Tex Foote
Stubbs
Colin Hughes
Stockman
Jacko Jackson
Van Driver
Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
Dawn Lake
Joyce
Jill Robb
CastingDirector
Harry Lawrence
Higgins
Robert McDarra
Pig Eyes
Carlo Manchini
Poker Player
Liam Reynolds
Miner
Nelson
The Fighting Kangaroo
George Willoughby
Producer
Ted Kotcheff
Director
Brian West
Director of Photography
Jill Dempster
Casting
Kenneth Cook
Novel
Anthony Buckley
Editor
Bill Harmon
Executive Producer
John Merrick
Casting
Maurice Singer
Associate Producer
Evan Jones
Screenplay
Howard G. Barnes
Executive Producer
John Scott
Original Music Composer
Tony Tegg
Gaffer
Keith Palmer
Sound Editor
John R. McLean
Camera Operator
Hugh Strain
Sound Mixer
John Appleton
Sound Recordist
Howard Rubie
First Assistant Director
John Shaw
Location Manager
Rita Cavill
Continuity
Tim Wellburn
Sound Editor
Robert Hynard
Hairstylist
Philip Moylan
Production Accountant
Ron Williams
Wardrobe Supervisor / Costume Design
Thom Noble
Post Production Supervisor
Monica Dawkins
Makeup Artist
Vivian Holmes
Production Office Assistant
Dennis Gentle
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 21, 1971
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 49m
Content RatingR
Box Office$50,394
Filming LocationsAustralia
Genres
Wiki.
Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Filmed on-location in Broken Hill and Sydney, Wake in Fright was an international co-production between Australia, Britain, and the United States. Alongside Walkabout, it was one of two Australian films to be nominated for the Grand Prix du Festival at the 24th Cannes Film Festival. Despite attracting positive reviews at the time, the film was a commercial failure in Australia, in part due to scant marketing by United Artists, as well as controversy surrounding its portrayal of outback life, including a hunting scene in which real kangaroos are shot and killed.
By the 1990s, Wake in Fright had developed a cult reputation as Australia's great "lost film" because its master negative had gone missing, resulting in censored prints of degraded quality being used for its few television broadcasts and VHS releases. After the original film and sound elements were rescued by editor Anthony Buckley in 2004, the film was digitally remastered and given a 2009 re-release at Cannes and in Australian theatres to widespread acclaim; it was issued commercially on DVD and Blu-ray later that year. Wake in Fright is now considered a pivotal film of both the Australian New Wave and the Ozploitation cycle, earning praise from contemporary critics for Kotcheff's direction and the cast's performances.Wake in Fright was remade as a two-part miniseries that aired in 2017.