“Brilliantly directed by Kotcheff, the film has the disorienting and menacing quality of Joseph Losey films such as Accident and The Servant.”
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After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, straight-laced teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets waylaid in a mining town where a gambling spree leaves him completely broke and he is forced to fall in with the menacing, hard drinking locals. Donald Pleasence has never been better (or more sinister) as the local alcoholic doctor who takes John under his wing, all the while guiding him further down into personal moral degradation. Wake in Fright is a true original - but won’t be for everyone in its controversial unflinching gaze into the dark heart of Australian outback life. (In other words: contains scenes that some may find disturbing.)
