Wake in Fright
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, as his one night stretches to five, 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...
| Producer(s): | George Willoughby |
| Cast: | Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, John Meillon, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, John Armstrong, Slim DeGrey, Maggie Dence, Norman Erskine, Owen Moase, John Dalleen, Buster Fiddess, Tex Foote, Colin Hughes, Jacko Jackson, Nancy Knudsen, Dawn Lake, Harry Lawrence, Bob McDarra, Carlo Marchini, Liam Reynolds |
| Writer(s): | Evan Jones |