Wake in Fright ( Outback )

Wake in Fright (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Outback
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min + 50 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ted Kotcheff

Written By:
Kenneth Cook
Evan Jones

Actors:
Donald Pleasence ..... 'Doc' Tydon
Gary Bond ..... John Grant
Chips Rafferty ..... Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay ..... Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson ..... Dick
Peter Whittle ..... Joe
Al Thomas ..... Tim Hynes
John Meillon ..... Charlie
John Armstrong ..... Atkins
Slim DeGrey ..... Jarvis
Maggie Dence ..... Receptionist
Norm Erskine ..... Joe the cook
Owen Moase ..... First controller
John Dalleen ..... Second controller
Buster Fiddess ..... Charlie Jones

Synopsis:

Outback was based on Kenneth Cook's novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs, more interested in slaughtering kangaroos and sexual carousing than in such niceties as education or propriety. The methodical shattering of Bond's dearly held values plunge the young teacher deeper into degeneracy. Outback was so graphic in its original Australian version that 15 minutes had to be cut before American distributor Group W would consider touching it.

Stunning, brutal and uncompromising, WAKE IN FRIGHT is considered one of the best films ever made in Australia. John Grant, a teacher at a remote rural school, is looking forward to his Xmas break in Sydney. Staging overnight in Bundanyabba, a rough mining town, Grant decides to enter the smoky, crowded pub... A pub he would wish he never entered. Five days later Grant leaves town a broken man, with a single bullet in his gun.

John Grant, a young teacher whose overnight stay in a rough outback mining town extends to a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, hunting and more drinking, plunging him toward his own destruction.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 02 January, 2010.

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