Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, WAKE IN FRIGHT is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left...

• 1 hr 49 min
• Directed by

  Ted Kotcheff
• Written by Evan Jones

• Starring

  Gary Bond

  ,

  Donald Pleasence

  ,

  Chips Rafferty

  ,

  Sylvia Kay

  ,

  Jack Thompson

  ,

  Peter Whittle

  ,

  John Meillon

  ,

  Slim De Grey