After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.<br /><br />"Wake in Fright" is a film made in Australia in 1971 and almost lost forever. It's not dated. It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing. It comes billed as a "horror film" and contains a great deal of horror, but all of the horror is human and brutally realistic."<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUIi02FMK0&t=1179s<br /><br />Director: Ted Kotcheff<br />Writers: Evan Jones( screenplay by) Kenneth Cook( based on the novel "Wake in Fright" by) Ted Kotcheff (screenplay)<br />Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
