I don't believe I've ever seen this film though I've followed Australian film for many years. The American Film Institute has scheduled an 8 day run as part of their Halloween on Screen festival. I could easily see it, but should I?
Barry
WAKE IN FRIGHT
New 35mm Print!
"The best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence." - Nick Cave
Alongside MAD MAX and WALKABOUT, this film is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (NORTH DALLAS FORTY, FIRST BLOOD), it tells the story of a British schoolteacher's descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. One of the few films to screen twice at the Cannes Film Festival: in competition in 1971, and the restored version in the Cannes Classics section in 2009. With Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson.
DIR Ted Kotcheff; SCR Evan Jones, after the novel by Kenneth Cook; PROD George Willoughby. Australia/US, 1971, color, 114 min. RATED R
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