Wake in Fright

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A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

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Cast and Crew

Cast

Gary Bond

Donald Pleasence

Chips Rafferty

Sylvia Kay

Jack Thompson

Peter Whittle

Al Thomas

John Meillon

John Armstrong

Slim DeGrey

Maggie Dence

Norm Erskine

Owen Moase

John Dalleen

Buster Fiddess

Tex Foote

Colin Hughes

Jacko Jackson

Nancy Knudsen

Dawn Lake

Harry Lawrence

Robert McDarra

Carlo Manchini

Liam Reynolds

Nelson

Crew

Ted Kotcheff

Evan Jones

Brian West

John Scott

Anthony Buckley

Howard G. Barnes

Bill Harmon

George Willoughby

Maurice Singer

John Merrick

Jill Dempster

Ron Williams

Thom Noble

Tim Wellburn

Keith Palmer

John R. McLean

Howard Rubie

Kenneth Cook

Dennis Gentle

Hugh Strain

John Shaw

John Appleton

Rita Cavill

Vivian Holmes

Philip Moylan

Tony Tegg

Monica Dawkins

Robert Hynard

Ron Williams

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