| Title |
Wake in fright [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Australia : Distributed by Roadshow Entertainment, ©2017. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (160 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Catalogued from container. |
| Roadshow Entertainment : R-124108-9. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 2017. |
| Special features: Behind the scenes. |
| Based on the 1961 novel by Kenneth Cook and the 1971 motion picture adaptation. |
| "May you dream of the Devil and..."-- Cover. |
| Creation Note |
Director Kriv Stenders ; written by Stephen M. Irwin ; producers Helen Bowden and Kristian Moliere. |
| Performer note |
Sean Keenan, David Wenham, Caren Pistorius, Gary Sweet, Alex Dimitriades, Robyn Malcolm, Lee Jones, Anna Samson, Hannah Frederiksen, Jada Alberts. |
| Summary Note |
Sweat, Dust and Beer... There's Nothing Else Out Here Mate! 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. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| Language note |
In English. [CC] English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]. [AD] English Audio Description (Descriptive narration for the vision impaired). |
| Subject - Name |
Cook, Kenneth, -- 1929-1987 -- Television adaptations |
| Subject |
Country life -- Australia -- Drama |
| Teachers -- Australia -- Drama |
| Rural conditions -- Australia -- Drama |
| Television series -- Australia |
| Television programs, Australian |
| Australia -- Rural conditions -- Drama |
| Thrillers (Television programs). |
| Horror television programs. |
| Television adaptations. |
| Television mini-series. |
| Television programs. |
| Added Author |
Stenders, Kriv film director. |
| Irwin, Stephen M. screenwriter. |
| Bowden, Helen producer. |
| Moliere, Kristian producer. |
| Keenan, Sean actor. |
| Dimitriades, Alex actor. |
| Pistorius, Caren actor. |
| Sweet, Gary actor. |
| Malcolm, Robyn actor. |
| Wenham, David, 1965- actor. |
| Cook, Kenneth, 1929-1987 Wake in fright, author. |
| Corporate Author |
Lingo Pictures |
| Screen Australia |
| Create NSW |
| Added title |
Wake in fright (Television mini-series : 2017) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F WAKE |
