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Bookmark this pageWake in Fright (1970)
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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From Time Out Film Guide
A sadly confused film, shot with something like a social realist's eye for accurate documentation - clothes, faces, sex habits, furniture, buildings, language. Into this very precise context, however, is dropped the melodramatic tale of a schoolteacher from the city (Bond) who goes to pieces in a remote desert township (a favourite piece of Australian mythology) under the impact of the hard-drinking, gambling, nihilistic pressures of life there, and is finally raped by Pleasence's renegade doctor. The end result is crudely exploitative.Author:
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- royden irvine said...
- Posted on Jul 12 2007 08:16 A hard realistic/symbolic adventure with European sensibility in the Australian outback. A great Australian film. A knockout. beware!
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Cast & crew
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Producer: George Willoughby
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Meillon full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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