Wake in Fright [Import] (Blu-ray) R
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 24, 2013
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Gary Bond, Jack Thompson & Donald Pleasence | |
| Performer: | Chips Rafferty & John Meillon | |
| Directed by | Ted Kotcheff | |
| Screenwriting by | Evan Jones | |
| Composition by | John Scott | |
| Director of Photography: | Brian West |
Entertainment Reviews:
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84%
Rating: 4/5 --
Perhaps slightly schematic in charting the descent of man, but it induces a sweat that's hard to wash off.
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Little White Lies
[A]s a strictly psychological portrait of destructive masculinity it's a gut-sock, vividly photographed, thrillingly edited and marked by performances that heave with strange complexity and dark camaraderie.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Wake In Fright gets beneath Australia's skin and stares into a dark heart that was hidden beneath the ochre dust and boozy bonhomie. One of the greatest Aussie films of all time.
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ABC Radio (Australia)
Wake in Fright deserves to occupy a place next to Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness, all of them stories that force us to observe the veil, so thin, that separates civilization from barbarism. [Full review in Spanish]
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El Financiero
It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing....All of the horror is human and brutally realistic.
Chicago Sun-Times
So, it's a good film and an important one, but it's no walk in the park despite a fair number of funny lines
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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Rating: 4/5 --
It presents a world in which refusing a pint has violent consequences, high spirits quickly curdle, and an unspoken homoerotic undertow gets ever more disturbing.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
OUTBACK was based on Kenneth Cook's novel WAKE IN FRIGHT. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs, more interested in slaughtering kangaroos and sexual carousing than in such niceties as education or propriety. The methodical shattering of Bond's dearly held values plunge the young teacher deeper into degeneracy. OUTBACK was so graphic in its original Australian version that 15 minutes had to be cut before American distributor Group W would consider touching it.
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