New 4K Trailer for 1971’s ‘Wake in Fright’ Australian Outback Thriller
by Alex Billington Might 1, 2026Source: YouTube
“What occurred to John Grant? The Outback occurred to John Grant.” Arrow Video has revealed their 4K restoration trailer for the cult traditional Australian thriller referred to as Wake in Fright – the US launch title for this. Wake in Fright initially opened in 1971 in Australia underneath the title Outback there, because it’s set there following some wild and loopy people residing within the dusty Outback of Oz. Arrow states: “Uncooked and brutal in its depiction of Outback nation consuming tradition within the Nineteen Seventies, Wake in Fright is an uncompromising landmark of Australian cinema from director Ted Kotcheff” (who would later direct First Blood). Kotcheff additionally sadly handed away simply final yr. Starring Gary Bond, after a nasty playing guess, a schoolteacher is marooned in a city filled with loopy, drunk, violent males who threaten to make him simply as loopy, drunk, and violent. It first premiered on the 1971 Cannes Movie Pageant as nicely. This psychological thriller movie directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, stars within the forged: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, & Jack Thompson. Based mostly on Kenneth Cook dinner’s 1961 novel of the identical title, it follows a schoolteacher who descends into private ethical degradation after discovering himself stranded on this menacing city. View under.
This is the brand new 4K trailer (+ cowl artwork) for Ted Kotcheff’s movie Wake in Fright, from Arrow’s YouTube:
And an authentic traditional trailer for Ted Kotcheff’s movie Wake in Fright aka Outback, additionally on YouTube:
“Have a drink, mate? Have a battle, mate? Have a style of mud and sweat, mate? There’s nothing else out right here.” John Grant (Gary Bond), a bored schoolteacher working within the distant outback, stops in a single day within the frontier mining city of Bundanyabba on his manner again to Sydney for the Christmas holidays. After he loses all his financial savings in a nasty playing guess, Grant finds himself marooned and swept up within the vortex of a succession of hard-drinking, hard-living and crude males led by Doc (Donald Pleasence) who threaten to make him simply as loopy, drunk, and violent as all of them are. Ignored upon launch, Wake in Fright has now been acclaimed as certainly one of Australia’s most legendary, distinctive, horrifying contributions to cinema historical past by the likes of Martin Scorsese & Nick Cave, and is introduced right here in a definitive 4K restoration. Wake in Fright, often known as Outback, is directed by Canadian filmmaker Ted Kotcheff, simply after making Two Gents Sharing (1969) and earlier than Lights Out (1972). The screenplay is written by Evan Jones; primarily based on the novel additionally titled “Wake in Fright” written by Kenneth Cook dinner. Produced by George Willoughby. This primary premiered on the 1971 Cannes Movie Pageant earlier than releasing in Australian cinemas in October 1971. Arrow Video will re-release Wake in Fright on 4K direct to Blu-ray – get your copy now. Any huge followers of this movie?
