“What happened to John Grant? The Outback happened to John Grant.” Arrow Video has revealed their 4K restoration trailer for the cult classic Australian thriller called Wake in Fright – the US release title for this. Wake in Fright originally opened in 1971 in Australia under the title Outback there, since it’s set there following some wild and crazy folks living in the dusty Outback of Oz. Arrow states: “Raw and brutal in its depiction of Outback country drinking culture in the 1970s, Wake in Fright is an uncompromising landmark of Australian cinema from director Ted Kotcheff” (who would later direct First Blood). Kotcheff also sadly passed away just last year. Starring Gary Bond, 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. It first premiered at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival as well. This psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, stars in the cast: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, & Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in this menacing town. View below. // Continue Reading ›
