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Wake in Fright (novel)
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Wake in Fright (1961) is the debut novel by Australian author Kenneth Cook.
Cover of the 1961 first edition
Cover of the 1961 first edition
Wake in Fright
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Wake in Fright is a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Australian daybill film poster
Australian daybill film poster
Bundanyabba is a "thinly disguised portrait" of Broken Hill, where much of the film was shot.
Bundanyabba is a "thinly disguised portrait" of Broken Hill, where much of the film was shot.