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Wake in Fright

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Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson. [1]

62 relations: Ajax Films, Anthony Buckley, Arts in Australia, Australia, Australian New Wave, Broken Hill, Chips Rafferty, Cinema of Australia, Culture of Australia, Dan Brodie, Dawn Lake, Donald Pleasence, Drafthouse Films, Evan Jones (writer), Exploitation film, Fantastic Fest, Fisher's Ghost (film), Gabriel Andrews, Gary Bond, Jack Thompson (actor), John Meillon, John Scott (composer), Kangaroo emblems and popular culture, Keith Palmer (film editor), Kenneth Cook, List of 2009 box office number-one films in Australia, List of Australian films, List of Australian films of 1971, List of cult films: W, List of films set in Australia, List of films shot in Sydney, List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, List of Masters of Cinema releases, List of Old Boys of Sydney Boys High School, List of rediscovered films, List of United Artists films, London FrightFest Film Festival, Maggie Dence, Monster Fest, NLT Productions, Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!, Outback (album), Outback (disambiguation), Ozploitation, Robert McDarra, Slim De Grey, Steve Dodd, Sylvia Kay, Ted Kotcheff, The Dressmaker (2015 film), ..., The Projection Booth, Thriller film, Two-up, Wake in Fright (miniseries), Wake in Fright (novel), West End Draught, Yabba (disambiguation), 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1971 Cannes Film Festival, 1971 in Australia, 1971 in film, 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Expand index (12 more) »

Ajax Films

Ajax Films was an Australian production company and studio that operated in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Anthony Buckley

Anthony Buckley (AO) (born 27 July 1937) is an Australian film editor and producer.

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Arts in Australia

The Arts in Australia refers to the art produced in the area of, on the subject of, or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian New Wave

The Australian New Wave (also known as the Australian Film Revival, Australian Film Renaissance, or New Australian Cinema) was an era of resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema, particularly in the United States.

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Broken Hill

Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia.

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Chips Rafferty

Chips Rafferty MBE (26 March 190927 May 1971) was an Australian actor.

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Cinema of Australia

The Australian film industry has its beginnings with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, the earliest feature film ever made.

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Culture of Australia

The culture of Australia is a Western culture, derived primarily from Britain but also influenced by the unique geography of Australia, the cultural input of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Australian people.

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Dan Brodie

Dan Brodie is an ARIA Award nominated musician, singer and songwriter from Melbourne, Australia, best known for his prolific solo career, during which he has released six studio albums and three eps.

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Dawn Lake

Dawn Alice Lake (20 January 19271 January 2006) was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer, and actor whose career spanned more than four decades.

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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.

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Drafthouse Films

Drafthouse Films is a film distribution company based in Austin, Texas which releases "provocative, visionary and artfully unusual films new and old from around the world".

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Evan Jones (writer)

Evan Jones (29 December 1927, Portland, Jamaica – 31 July 2012, Shrewsbury, England), Rootsweb.ancestry.com; updated 20 March 2017.

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Exploitation film

An exploitation film is a film that attempts to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.

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Fantastic Fest

Fantastic Fest is an annual film festival in Austin, Texas.

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Fisher's Ghost (film)

Fisher's Ghost is a 1924 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on the legend of Fisher's Ghost.

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Gabriel Andrews

Gabriel Andrews is an Australian television, film and stage actor.

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Gary Bond

Gary James Bond (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an English film and television actor.

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Jack Thompson (actor)

Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema.

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John Meillon

John Meillon, (1 May 1934 – 10 August 1989) was an Australian character actor, known for many straight as well as comedy roles, he became most widely known internationally however as Walter Reilly in the films Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II.

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John Scott (composer)

John Scott (born Patrick John O'Hara Scott, 1 November 1930), also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is an English film composer and music conductor.

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Kangaroo emblems and popular culture

Kangaroo emblems and popular culture deals with how the kangaroo has become a recognisable symbol of Australia, both within Australia itself, and internationally.

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Keith Palmer (film editor)

Keith Palmer (born 1942) is a British film editor, best known for the Sharpe and Hornblower television movies, but active in feature films since the 1960s.

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Kenneth Cook

Kenneth Bernard Cook (5 May 1929 – 18 April 1987) was an Australian journalist, television documentary maker, and novelist best known for his works Wake in Fright, which is still in print five decades after its first publication, and the humorous Killer Koala trilogy.

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List of 2009 box office number-one films in Australia

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the Australia during 2009.

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List of Australian films

Australian filmmakers were at the forefront of cinema and film, having created what is considered the first feature length narrative film with the release of The Story of the Kelly Gang and other early films by directors John Gavin, W. J. Lincoln and Alfred Rolfe.

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List of Australian films of 1971

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List of cult films: W

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List of films set in Australia

This is a list of films set in Australia (and not just only filmed or created in Australia).

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List of films shot in Sydney

The following is a list of films shot wholly or partly in Sydney or elsewhere in New South Wales.

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List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

On the film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, films which are reviewed by at least five critics, and which all of these critics consider to be good films, have a 100% approval rating.

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List of Masters of Cinema releases

Masters of Cinema is a line of DVD and Blu-rays released in the UK through Eureka Entertainment.

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List of Old Boys of Sydney Boys High School

This is a List Old Boys of Sydney Boys High School, them being notable alumni – known as "Old Boys" of the academically selective Sydney Boys High School, which is located in Moore Park, New South Wales, Australia.

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List of rediscovered films

This is a list of rediscovered films that, once thought lost, have since been discovered, in whole or in part.

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List of United Artists films

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

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London FrightFest Film Festival

FrightFest, also known as Horror Channel FrightFest, is an annual film festival held in central London over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

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Maggie Dence

Maggie Dence (born 1 February 1942) is an Australian stage, film and television actress.

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Monster Fest

Monster Fest is an annual genre film festival in Melbourne, Australia.

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NLT Productions

NLT Productions was an Australian production company formed in 1961 which made a number of films and TV series.

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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 Australian documentary film about the Australian New Wave of 1970s and '80s low-budget cinema.

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Outback (album)

Outback is a jazz album by Joe Farrell on the CTI Records label.

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Outback (disambiguation)

The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.

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Ozploitation

Ozploitation (a portmanteau of Australia and exploitation) films are exploitation films – a category of low-budget horror, comedy, and action films – made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971.

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Robert McDarra

Robert McDarra (1931–1975) was an Australian stage, television and film actor.

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Slim De Grey

Clifford Frank de Grey (20 May 1918– 16 March 2007), better known as Slim De Grey was an English-Australian actor, compere, musician and comedian.

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Steve Dodd

Steve Dodd (1 June 1928 – 10 November 2014) was an Indigenous Australian actor, notable for playing indigenous characters across seven decades of Australian film.

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Sylvia Kay

Sylvia Kay (born 1936 in Altrincham, Cheshire) is an English character actress who has had many roles in British television programmes, most notably as Daphne Warrender in the BBC sitcom Just Good Friends.

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Ted Kotcheff

William Theodore Kotcheff (born Velichko Todorov Tsochev, April 7, 1931) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on several high-profile British and American television productions such as Armchair Theatre and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

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The Dressmaker (2015 film)

The Dressmaker is a 2015 Australian revenge comedy-drama film written and directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, based on the novel of the same name by Rosalie Ham.

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The Projection Booth

The Projection Booth is a podcast featuring discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that involves excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Two-up

Two-up is a traditional Australian gambling game, involving a designated "spinner" throwing two coins or pennies into the air.

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Wake in Fright (miniseries)

Wake in Fright is an Australian miniseries based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, which first aired on Network Ten in October 2017.

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Wake in Fright (novel)

Wake in Fright (1961) is the debut novel by Australian author Kenneth Cook.

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West End Draught

West End Draught is a South Australian lager brewed by the South Australian Brewing Company, which was later acquired by Lion Nathan in 1993.

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Yabba (disambiguation)

"Yabba" is the nickname of Stephen Gascoigne (1878–1942), a well-known heckler at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.

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1971 Cannes Film Festival

The 24th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 27 May 1971.

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1971 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1971 in Australia.

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1971 in film

The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

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2009 Cannes Film Festival

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 May to 24 May 2009.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_in_Fright

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