1 Movie Starring Gary Bond

Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-07-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia, USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (4327 Reviews)

Director:

Ted Kotcheff

Cast:

Writer:

Evan Jones (screenplay)

Kenneth Cook (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and 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...

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