Wake in Fright Limited Edition

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.

Special Features

Booklet, Bonus Footage, Commentary: Ted Kotcheff and Anthony Buckley (editor); Peter Galvin (author), Documentaries: 'Return to the 'Yabba'; 'The Filmmaker and the Film Buff', Image Gallery, Interviews: Brian West (cinematographer); Keith Palmer and Eddy Joseph (sound editors); Ted Kotcheff (director); Jack Thompson (actor); John Scott (composer), Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jeff Marshall; 'Foreign Visions of Local Stories': Trailer reel of Australian films helmed by overseas filmmakers; 'The Cinema's Great Squeaky Bald Git': Appreciation of actor Donald Pleasence by Kim Newman (film historian); Q&A with Ted Kotcheff from the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival; Alternate scenes; 2009 TV report on the rediscovery and restoration of 'Wake in Fright'; 'Who Needs Art?': 1971 TV segment with behind-the-scenes footage; Chips Rafferty obituary by Ken G. Hall, Trailers

Actors: John Meillon, Gary Bond, Jack Thompson, Chips Rafferty, Silvia Kay, Donald Pleasence, Peter Whittle

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 109 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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