Friday, April 16, 2010

Wake in Fright: April 19, 21, 22 (MA)

Violence and mature themes
Australia 1971
A CLASSIC
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Script: Evan Jones (after a novel by Kenneth Cook)
Featuring: Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Donald Pleasence, Jack Thompson, John Meillon, Slim de Grey, Maggie Dence, Norm Erskine, Sylvia Kay, Peter Whittle, Al Thomas, Jacko Jackson
Budget: AUD$800, 000
Running time:
104 minutes
HISTORY: Click Here for Wikipedia Notes

David Stratton's Review: John Grant, (GARY BOND) is a schoolteacher bonded to the NSW Education Department and assigned to a tiny school in a remote community in the far west of the state.

While returning to Sydney for the Christmas summer break, he stops overnight at Bundayabba, popularly known as The Yabba, where he discovers that the friendliness and the hospitality of the locals, led by local cop Jock Crawford, (CHIPS RAFFERTY), has a decidedly sinister side to it ... click here to read more

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