Wake in fright / directed by Ted Kotcheff.
Publisher number: MMA2967 | MadmanPublication details: Melbourne, Vic. : Madman Entertainment, 2009.Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (circa 105 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (32 pages)Other title:- Outback
- Wake in fright (Motion picture)
- 791.4372 22
- PN1997 .W334 2009
- Producer, George Willoughby ; director, Ted Kotcheff ; script, Evan Jones ; music, John Scott.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DVD | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | DVD | WAK | Available | 071301 |
Special features include: scene selection ; interview with the director ; optional audio commentary with the director and the editor ; "Who needs art?" (1971) - segment on Wake in fright ; Ken G. Hall interview about Chips Rafferty ; rediscovery and restoration of the film (ABC's 7.30 Report) ; "Not quite Hollywood" (2008) - extended scene on Wake in fright ; international theatrical trailer.
Based on the novel of the same name by Kenneth Cook.
DVD.
Previously released in 1970 as 'Outback'
M - Recommended for mature audiences 15 years and over.
Producer, George Willoughby ; director, Ted Kotcheff ; script, Evan Jones ; music, John Scott.
Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay.
A young Englishman teaching in an outback school sets off to spend his summer vacation in Sydney but doesn't make it beyond the nearby mining town known as 'the Yabba'. He is engulfed by the slightly sinister mateship of the locals with its undertow of repressed sexuality and squalid violence. The excess of this alcoholic nightmare is held in check by rough humour.
Censorship classification : M.
Originally produced as a motion picture Australia : Group W. Films/N.L.T. Productions, c1970.
Disc characteristics: DVD Region 4.
In English.
