Wake In Fright Part 1
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Strewth! Thanks for uploading, mate!
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Bless you whoever posted this film on here.
Have been desperate to see this film since I was 12 (in 1971), seeing the trailer at our local fleapit, then it just vanished into thin air. And even now, it seems, I can't get hold of it! So thank you so so much. Are you related to that wonderful director of this film? And why was the title changed from Outback.
Bless you once again
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It is fortunate that negatives for this movie were ever found cause it is kind of unique. But I'm sure the version which was presented on TV in Australia had different dubbing in places e.g. when Janet Hyndes says "She's a shag this little bitch" in the new DVD, the TV version, the word slut was substituted for shag. Anyways this is only a minor niggle since having the new movie re-release is better than having nothing.
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I saw a presentation of this movie a couple of years back in Cairns. The Producer, who now lives in Pt Douglas, addressed the audience and was available to take questions after the screening. Thinking that the clock without hands at the rail siding might have been some kind of poetic analogy to "the timelessness of the outback", I asked the producer whether this had any significance. "No" he said, " It was just a prop". Well,so much for my interpretation!
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Drinking is still a major problem in Australia and now gambling has been included, I'm in my 40's and I also see a lot of young people smoking coz they think its cool. If we all drank less and gave up smoking and gambling ,australians would be a lot healthier and happier. I have worked with a lot of blokes that die before they retire because of the poor lifestyle.
6 months ago 2
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@jlc137 No kangaroos are endangered in Australia, only a few species of wallabies, rock wallabies... Australia has a Kangaroo population in the multi-millions, which has been a food source for the Australian Aborigine for thousands of years....Kangaroo meat is an essential part of their outback culture.....
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I bet they dont show all of the roo shoot..The DVD is unedited..
and in NSW at least, during the 1970s, you could walk into any
police station with a foxes tale and they would give you $10- for it.....
THATS HOW BAD THE FOX SITUATION WAS
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I bet they dont show all of the roo shoot..The DVD is unedited..
and in NSW at least, during the 1970s, you could walk into any
police station with a foxes tale and they would give you $10- for it.....
THATS HOW BAD THE FOX SITUATION WAS
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@jlc137 I remember going half way to Broken Hill, Shooting, with my father when I was a lad.. Don't let this movie bullshit you.....Each town had two pubs, one for the Blacks and one for the Whites............And in one town we walked into the wrong one..... Nothing happened, we just left quickly and walked to the other across town...
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I NOW OWN A COPY OF THIS TOTALLY REMASTERED AND IT IS AVAILABLE
ON DVD FROM ABC AUSTRALIA AND POSSIBLY ELSEWHERE
AS IT IS NOW THE ONLY FILM IN HISTORY TO BE SELECTED AT CANNES
IN 1971 AND THEN AGAIN IN 2009 AS A CLASSIC...
PS This is not a very shocking film, this is the way it really was in Outback Australia
in the 1960s and 70s.....Too much booze, two-up and nothin else to do but go shootin roo's...
I should know I've seen it....first hand...........I live there...
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Thanks for posting this. This movie has been sadly neglected & needs to be restored & reissued but I understand that Film Australia is in battle with rights & it will be some time. We almost lost it forever as garbage but luckily it survived. Donald Pleasance is superb as is the rest of the cast.
jlc137 3 years ago 6
I am so delighted to see this film on this site. I lived for a few months in Broken Hill a few years ago, actually in the Hospital which is shown at the end. The film was screaned in Broken Hill as part of a cultural festival and was the first time it was shown since it was filmed. During my stay in the hill I met many people that were involved in the making of the film but not many liked the end result. If you have a full copy I would love to have one. Andy- Ireland
andrewchapple 3 years ago 4