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Wake in Fright is a 1971 psychological thriller 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.
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One of my favorite Australian movies and one of the reasons why I love films from the 70s. I remember watching this film on Netflix, a year or 5 ago. Back then, there was a series of interesting cult movies on there. Not sure what happened to that section. It probably wasn't 'popular' enough. This is one of the rawest movies that I've ever seen, mixing realism and fiction in such a way that you wonder whether the li…More
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