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Wake In Fright Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis:
HAVE A DRINK, MATE? HAVE A FIGHT, MATE? HAVE A TASTE OF DUST AND SWEAT, MATE? THERE'S NOTHING ELSE OUT HERE.

Raw and brutal in its depiction of Outback country drinking culture in the 1970s, Wake in Fright is an uncompromising landmark of Australian cinema from director Ted Kotcheff (First Blood).

John Grant (Gary Bond, Zulu), a bored schoolteacher working in the remote outback, stops overnight in the frontier mining town of Bundanyabba on his way back to Sydney for the Christmas holidays. After he loses all his savings in a bad gambling bet, Grant finds himself marooned and swept up in the vortex of a succession of hard-drinking, hard-living and crude men led by Doc (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent as they are.

Ignored upon release, Wake in Fright has now been acclaimed as one of Australia’s most legendary, unique and horrifying contributions to cinema history by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave, and is presented here in a definitive 4K restoration.
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00:03Staying long?
00:04No, just tonight.
00:05Oh, that's hard luck.
00:06I ought to see a bit more of the yabber than that.
00:08You think it's worth seeing?
00:09It's the best place in Australia.
00:13You clipper blacks never like to stop in the one spot long, do you?
00:18Depends on the place.
00:28Ladies and gentlemen,
00:30let us pay a tribute to our fallen comrades.
00:35They shall grow old,
00:37as we that are left grow old.
00:41I shall not weary them,
00:43nor the years condemn.
00:46We will remember them.
00:48We will remember them.
00:53Lest we forget.
00:56Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
00:58What happened to John Grant?
01:00Now, drink it down!
01:04What's wrong with you?
01:11The Outback
01:12happened to John Grant.
01:14What happened to John Grant?
01:20What happened to John Grant?
01:28What happened to John Grant?
01:28What happened to John Grant?
01:28What happened to John Grant?
01:28What happened to John Grant?
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