Filmed in Broken Hill. No one mentions that. I was born in 1985 and the film was filmed in 1970...despite the difference in years it's still very clear it's Broken Hill. The Post Office, the street names, the pubs, etc. Most amusing though, is in a scene early on theres a band playing in the background where the main protagonist is, I paused the film as my father explained his dad (my pop) was playing in there. I paused the film. There he is. Joe Keenan in his debut performance haha. Great film.

Will never forget sitting with a mate of mine in his lounge room with not alot to do so we turned the television on. 5 minutes later Bill Collins comes on and introduces Wake In Fright. The only ever TV showing of the film. We sat there absolutely mesmerised throughout the entire film and when it ended we just looked at each other looking for the words. Blown away. I spent years trying to track it down after that with no luck.

Incredible film. I couldn’t shake off the dark feelings for over a week.

@beauvearing8450

Жыл бұрын

I'm wondering if wolf creek and wake in fright could come under comparison?

Bill Collins comments are spot on. It's one of the finest films ever made in this country, from an amazing novel too. Like it or not, this film is still has relevance to our society and culture. A masterpiece.

@brianmcinerney577

7 жыл бұрын

Brian McInerney. A fantastic film that captured the Australian outback so accurately. The casting is brilliant, love to see it again.

@thespamdance311

5 жыл бұрын

Quite right. Growing up, I always saw him as a silly little man who interrupted the Saturday night movie, but clearly I misjudged him. He's right about it holding up a mirror to society: perhaps that's why people disliked so much - a bit like the Barry McKenzie movies.

@andrewattenboroughtwothumb4697

3 жыл бұрын

I agree and one of my favourite movies

Chips Rafferty is absolutely chilling in this ..a friendly veneer with a sinister character lying beneath full of hatred for his fellow man

it is a disgrace that this film was almost lost completely , appalling . I saw this movie on TV for the first time in the late 70 ,s , one of the best movies ever.

This is not just a great Australian film, it is one of the greatest films ever made anywhere. Absolutely incredible.

I remember seeing it I think for the second time, when Bill introduced it back in the 1980s some time one Friday evening. I was one of the lucky ones. An off chance watching TV on a Friday night. Back when TV was worth watching. I am sure I saw it somewhere in the 1970s as well, either on TV or more likely at the cinema with my parents. Bought it on online ( an inferior copy) from overseas back in 2005 I think. Have a digitised version now ( National Film & Sound Archive). One of my all time favourite films.

It was the last film with the great Chips Rafferty and the first with Jack Thompson. A real turning point in Australian cinema.

@coweatsman

6 жыл бұрын

Growing up in Broken Hill where the film was made in the 1970s it was a trip down memory lane with all the footage of my childhood town. My father knew Kenneth Cook who wrote the book on which the film is based.

We all watched it. Wild as hell. Loved it

One of the greatest movies I've ever seen. I just stumbled upon few days ago.

Wow I knew nothing of this film and came across it on ABC Iview, what an absolute treat. In one of those ironies I actually went to Broken Hill about 18 months ago with my partner. I have always been fascinated by the place and Its history - all Australians should have a visit at least once in their life. It reminds me when I relocated from Sydney to Tassie - purchasing a 20 acre property outside of Hobart, I also ended up purchasing a garage in Queenstown on the west coast of Tassie, at a local government auction, before I knew I had a band show up and about 40 people, I didn't know, come around for a drink. That's the underbelly of Australia outside of bland suburbia. I really love one of the ending scenes where the school teacher refuses to have a drink, the driver says "Your mad you bastard". That is so Australian, it reminds me of younger days and large drinking sessions that made no sense, but is was the dark Australian mateship. One of the best movies I've seen thank you.

I have to say after watching this report that the 1980s airing on Channel 10 wasn't the only time this film was aired on television as I so happen to have an incomplete Philips N1500 videocassette recording of this movie from on CTC-7 Canberra in 1978 with original commercials. From the bits I've seen, I have to say this movie is well worth watching n will soon be buying me a copy of it. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the boys in the bush are indeed rough n tumble like in this film.

@latenightlogic Thank you! It is a great film, almost lost to us forever, saved in a nick of time. One of the interior pub scenes was actually filmed in the Members' bar at the SCG. If you can still get hold of the newly digitised dvd version, it's worth every penny. An Australian classic.

It's beautiful to look at & frightening to behold.

Loved this movie was so much like I pile of experience Ive had in the outback especially as I grew up on the city fringe

First Saw Wake In Fright 1971 Back In 1993 At The Keno Cinema In Collins Street Melbourne Got It On Blu-ray Now! Lent It To One Of My Bosses At Work Who Is From Mauritius Originally! He Absolutely Loved It!😉🤠🍺🍻🏚️🏜️🎬🎞️📽️🇦🇺

I live in Mount Isa and the lifestyle depicted through the film is 100% like this if not worse

It's basically a documentary of the outback.

saved in a nick of time from disappearing forever.

one of the best

I saw this on television in the U.S. many years ago. I remember watching it at night being slightly horrified by it. I vaguely remembered a film with a lot of drunken macho men and someone fighting a kangaroo. It was a very brutal film and installed a fear of the outback on me for along time. I'd forgotten it until accidently stumbling across a story about this film and it sounded vaguely familar, similar to that odd, scary film I watched so many years ago. Then I read about the kangroo hunt and it clicked, this was the movie! And this youtube video said it went under the name "Outback" in the U.S., and that was indeed the name I recalled. I'm am looking forward to watching the film again.... maybe.

Great film, have my DVD copy.Broken Hill where the film is based is worth a visit, love the place.Menindee & Mutawintji National Park, Silverton too I enjoyed everyday out there exploring & sunsets like nowhere else. Don't forget the camera.But the film characters everyone has come across elements of them somewhere.

Excellent movie

Directed by Ted Kotcheff a Canadian born in Toronto.

Came very close to being lost forever :-) Saved on the bell. Excellent movie, agree. Thanks!

Yes, very realistic, almost too close to the bone. To think it was almost lost.... forever. But yes, it's an accurate description of life in the outback, nowhere near as far-fetched as many think. Thanks. ;)

Brilliant book, brilliant movie

a truly disturbing movie.....right up there with "romper stomper"....had to turn it over....not a horror movie....not a thriller.....just a drama......a very sick disturbing one.

@beugnen thanks for commenting, but isn't Sunday Too Far Away just as relevant a slice of Australiana as Wake? I really believe it is. You can get Wake on dvd or blu-ray from either ezydvd[.]com[.]au or jbhifionline[.]com[.]au - It's interesting that Gary Bond the English lead actor who plays John Grant the teacher perished from AIDS.

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AWESOME FILM.

@retrooldcommercials - thanks - you can get the dvd online at either ezydvd or jbhionline, among others, prbably also at sanity. i have it and it's a great aussie film, almost lost to us forever if not for the inquiries of a few devoted folk. it would've been a travesty if it had've been lost, and the redigitised version is superb, well worth the $35 or $40... i'd even pay $50 for it, and it shouldn't be long before it reemerges on our tv screens.

@sparkmouse Agreed! Great film.

Hope it's a bestseller for you! :-)

How is Walk About considered by Australians in comparison

Dont know if id call this a horror movie , just a bogan aussie film in the day .

The 1971 Australian thriller "Wake in Fright" was essentially lost for years until the master negative was found IN A TRA$H BIN & restored in 2009. Similarly, the low budget 1978 movie "Killer of Sheep" didn't receive theatrical distribution once completed as the filmmakers didn't clear the rights for the music used in it. These two films have since obtained wider circulation and, correspondingly, admiration.

@Aussie1964

2 жыл бұрын

I actually managed to purchase a copy online ( inferior DVD copy as it was) from Canada/US back in 2005. Got the digitised version around 2010.

@Aussie1964

2 жыл бұрын

"Killer of Sheep" is an American film.

Av a beya made!

Typically Australian.

Ya bad ya bustard

@buryitdeep

2 жыл бұрын

*mad