Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright1971

Stars: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 109 minutes

An arrogant and dissatisfied English teacher in a remote Australian outback community looks forward to his Christmas break in Sydney. Required to spend the night in another remote town Bundayabba ("the Yabba") before his flight he is reluc… more »



Van Driver:
[John is declining an invitation from the stranger who gave him a ride in a jeep] Come on, come and have a drink.

John Grant:
Look mate, I've given up drinking for a while.

Van Driver:
What's wrong with you, you bastard? Why don't you come and drink with me? I've just brought you fifty miles in the heat and dust, and you won't drink with me? What's wrong with you?

John Grant:
What's the matter with you people, huh? Sponge on you, burn your house down, murder your wife, rape your child, that's all right. But you don't have a drink, a flaming bloody drink with you, and it's a criminal offence, it's the end of the bloody world! [storms off]

Van Driver:
You're mad, you bastard!

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