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Wake in Fright

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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1971-07-21

Runtime: 109 mins

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Original title: Wake in Fright

Production Companies: NLT, Group W, United Artists

Production Countries: Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America

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