Budget
A$800,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$50,394
Opening weekend US & Canada
$6,761
Gross worldwide
$218,229
Wake in Fright
Wake in Fright is a film directed by Ted Kotcheff.
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- Release date October 9, 1971
- Filming locations Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
- Production companies NLT Productions, Group W
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By Elda 2022-09-12 23:43:08
Australian film Wake in Fright. Old movies from the 70's. It is still considered by some to be the best film in Australia.
Looking at the title, I thought it was a murder and robbery, or a gangster fire and the like, but it was not. The film tells the story of a rural primary school teacher from Sydney. On the way back to Sydney during the holiday, he arrived in a small town and was about to transfer to a plane. He lived in a small town, was overly warmly received by the locals, and... -
By Kristy 2022-09-12 22:07:17
It felt weird, uneasy. Ring (use the concept, count?) structure.
John Glenn, the teacher assigned to teach at Tibonda after a thousand bond. I am eagerly looking forward to leaving this little place for vacation and going to the big city to meet my girlfriend in Sydney. Mood is dissatisfaction with one's environment. When I changed cars at Yaba, a lot of things happened, which changed my mentality. I calmly accepted the current state of existence, and then went back to Tibenda after... -
By Amber 2022-09-12 20:14:31
Going around and back to the origin
I am isolated from the world and get together in a carnival. I go around and go back to the original point. Only killing yourself is a way of getting out of town. It was carried without any scruples, it was reddened by the scorching sun, and it was sobered by alcohol. The last sentence became a prophecy, and he stepped onto the "road to suicide" that Big Cap said casually and uncomfortably at the beginning of the film, and the male protagonist was just one of the many... -
By Miles 2022-09-12 14:15:05
This is a story of balancing a regular life after releasing the animalistic and instinctive desires in the heart by struggling and tearing in the restraint and repression. The diffused air in the small town of Yabbada is mingled with indulgent hormonal fires. After coming to the town, following the guidance of this hormone, John Grant, a person who lives in a normal social system, is like a kangaroo witness, greed, violence, sex, and human relations are exposed to the spotlight and stared at...
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By Unique 2022-09-12 12:53:00
Incomparable depression and despair. There is a sense of immediate vision of his own situation.
After reading it, I was extremely shocked, and hurriedly wrote down my own broken words, #見作#
Extremely depressed and desperate. The tears in the corners of his eyes when he was rescued are even more helpless to despair of life. In a strange town, due to greed and curiosity, he lost everything on impulse and fell into the quagmire step by step. Nightmarish place where you can't die.
In a small town, the emptiness behind the carnival of the residents, the confusion...
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By Dessie 2023-09-30 06:37:49
Wild beings play, their lives are consumed beer foam. Some parts of the film feel good, such as the 360-degree circle shooting at the beginning, hunting kangaroos. Don't take it seriously for a thriller. 3.4...
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By Davon 2023-09-04 20:35:31
"Have a drink?" "No drink" "I invite you, let's have a drink together" "What's wrong with you people in this ghost place, your family members are killed and raped, the house is burned down and no response. Others don't talk to you. Drinking a cup is like being dug into the grave of one's...
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By Silas 2023-08-31 08:43:43
The film can be regarded as "the best film in Australian history". The editing is so good that it can be regarded as a textbook level, and the soundtrack further expresses the impetuousness, anxiety and panic in the story. The actor played really well. When he lost all his savings in the casino, when he hunted kangaroos in the dark, and when he returned to the town again, several scenes were very...
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By Edgardo 2023-08-22 18:31:51
The wild town adventures gather the free temperament of road films and western films, especially under the birth of Australian land, the most primitive parts of human nature are easily exposed, such as greed and sexual orientation, etc. The scene of killing the kangaroos was very well...
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By Chance 2023-08-03 20:29:07
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John Grant: Police have much to do in Bundanyabba?
Jock Crawford: Nah. No, not really. We sort of... we just sort of keep an eye on things. Honestest little town in Australia this is, mate. But mind you, there re not too many game enough to try anything around here. You see, we're so isolated, there's nowhere to go. We get 'em, and quick.
John Grant: Sounds like an easy life.
Jock Crawford: Yeah, not bad. 'Course, we do have a few suicides.
John Grant: Yeah?
Jock Crawford: Yeah. Yeah, they reckon it's the heat. Me? Ha, ha... I like the heat!
John Grant: Yeah, it's one way of getting out of town.
Jock Crawford: What is?
John Grant: Killing yourself.
Jock Crawford: 'Ay, that's good! I like a bloke with a sense o' humour!
[laughs]
Jock Crawford: Oh, killing yourself.
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'Doc' Tydon: If I were ever to marry, Janette's the sort of girl I'd like to marry. She likes sex. She likes experiment and, er, she likes variety. We thought about getting married once, but neither of us could live with one person for very long. Still, she visits me from time to time. When I want her. And when she gets bored, with them. Beer?
[hands John a bottle, who drinks]
'Doc' Tydon: What's wrong with a woman taking a man because she feels like it?
John Grant: I really don't know.
'Doc' Tydon: Because there's nothing wrong with it. Sex is just like eating: it's a thing you do because you have to. Not 'cause you want to, but most people are afraid of it. You seem offended by my little discussion of Janette. In the circumstances, I thought you'd be interested.
John Grant: Well, I'm not.
'Doc' Tydon: You're probably a little puritan, like the rest of these people. They think Janette's a slut... the women who'd like to act like her, and the men she has given a tumble to. Janette and I are alike. We break the rules. But we know more about ourselves than most people.
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[Crawford is visiting John in hospital after the latter has tried to kill himself]
Jock Crawford: I, uh, hate to trouble you, John, but rather than tire you, I thought I'd write down what had happened and you could sign it, okay?
[reads a statement]
Jock Crawford: "The gunshot wound to my head was the result of an accident. I was visiting my friend, Clarence F. Tydon, after a hunting trip. I dropped my .22 rifle at the floor of his kitchen butt first, believing it to be unloaded. It exploded, and that's all I remember." That'll be about it, wouldn't it? Here.
[hands a pen to John, who signs the statement]
