- HD 1080
- Runtime: 109m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Director: Ted Kotcheff
- Stars: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson
- keywords: australia, based on novel or book, gambling, beer, teacher, mining town, outback, hunt, drunkenness, australian outback, christmas, kangaroo, coin toss, independent film
- Production_studio: NLT, Group W, United Artists
- Slogan: Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
- providers: Fandor
- The Wake in Fright is featured in the top rankings of 1971
- #17 in Top Drama Movies of 1971
- #4 in Top Thriller Movies of 1971
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.
