Donald Pleasence in WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)

WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)

"After a year of teaching at a small outback school, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent."

This is an online movie discussion group. While participants usually arrive having watched the film beforehand, you are invited to come and listen if you haven't seen the film yet.

WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)
Also released as “Outback”
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Screenplay by Evan Jones
Based on the 1961 novel by Kenneth Cook
With Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty and Jack Thompson
1 hour 49 mins.
Available to stream on Shudder, canopy, ABC view, archive.org/details/wake-in-fright-1971_202403 and drive.google.com/file/d/1APYFfjSNu1woN-y3pztY7PwzaqPHMZDb/view?usp=sharing

Please be advised there is a scene of amateur kangaroo hunting.

Of interest:

WAKE IN FRIGHT
A Novel by Kenneth Cook
Published in 1961
archive.org/details/wakeinfright00cook