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Wake in Fright

Rating:R
Genre:Drama
Release Date:February 20, 1972
Running time:114 minutes
Cast:Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson
Director:Ted Kotcheff
Writer:Kenneth Cook, Evan Jones

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.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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