Wake in Fright

Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left ...

Believed lost for many years, Wake in Fright has been painstakingly restored by Australia's National Film and Sound Archive and AtLab Deluxe, and is presented in its original uncompromising form.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Interview with director Ted Kotcheff
• Audio commentary with director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley
• Restoration Comparison
• Who Needs Art? (1971) – segment on Wake in Fright
• Ken G. Hall interview about Chips Rafferty
• Rediscovery and restoration of the film – ABC's 7.30 Report
• Not Quite Hollywood (2008) – extended scene on Wake in Fright
• International theatrical trailer