About this release
Bored school teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) stops overnight in Bundanyabba, a frontier mining town, on his way to Sydney for Christmas. After a bad gambling bet, Grant is swept up in the vortex of a group of hard-drinking, hard-living, crude, vicious men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
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Disc 1
UHD
Wake in Fright (1971)
109 min
ThrillerDrama
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Credits
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Writer
Evan Jones
Cast
Donald Pleasenceas Doc Tydon
Gary Bondas John Grant
Chips Raffertyas Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kayas Janette Hynes
Jack Thompsonas Dick
Peter Whittleas Joe
Al Thomasas Tim Hynes
John Meillonas Charlie
John Armstrongas Atkins
Slim DeGreyas Jarvis
Cinematographer
Brian West
Composer
John Scott
Editor
Anthony Buckley
Producer
George Willoughby
Disc 2
BDWake in Fright (1971)
109 min
ThrillerDrama
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Credits
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Writer
Evan Jones
Cast
Donald Pleasenceas Doc Tydon
Gary Bondas John Grant
Chips Raffertyas Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kayas Janette Hynes
Jack Thompsonas Dick
Peter Whittleas Joe
Al Thomasas Tim Hynes
John Meillonas Charlie
John Armstrongas Atkins
Slim DeGreyas Jarvis
Cinematographer
Brian West
Composer
John Scott
Editor
Anthony Buckley
Producer
George Willoughby
Images
Release Details
- Packaging
- Blu-ray Case
Catalogue Info
- Added by
- Matthew Simpson
- Date added
- June 17, 2026