Wake in Fright - Blu-Ray (Region B) + DVD (Region 2) - [Pre-owned]

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  • Product Description
    “Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have a taste of dust and sweat, mate? There’s nothing else out here.” Balanced on a knife-edge between social realism and existential horror, this disturbing, subversive portrayal of Australia’s cultural underbelly failed to find a wide audience on its original release, but has since become established as a seminal cornerstone of the Australian cinema.

    A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in “the Yabba” may take him on a path darker than ever expected.

    One of the many triumphs in director Ted Kotcheff’s career, Wake in Fright effortlessly sustains the quality of a sun-baked nightmare, with a relentless forward drive and outstanding performances by Donald Pleasance, Gary Bond, Sylvia Kay, and Chips Rafferty in his final role. A brutal, gripping dissection of the limits of masculinity and amorality to stand alongside Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, and Deliverance, it remains a stunning entry in the envelope-pushing cinema of the early 1970s. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this film in a new Dual Format edition for its UK home viewing premiere.
  • Product Features
    New high-definition 1080p presentation of the film, from the 2009 restoration
    Full-length audio commentary on the feature by director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley
    23-minute video interview with Kotcheff
    Who Needs Art? – a 6-minute piece covering the production of the film
    4-minute eulogy to actor Chips Rafferty by director Ken G. Hall
    7-minute TV report on the film’s restoration and rediscovery
    U.S. TV trailer for the film under its American release title of “Outback”
    Re-release trailer
    48-PAGE FULL-COLOUR BOOKLET containing a new and exclusive essay on the film by critic and scholar Adrian Martin; an essay by Peter Galvin; pieces on the film’s rediscovery by Meg Labrum and Graham Shirley of the National Film & Sound Archive, Australia;
  • Product Details

    Studio: Eureka! Entertainment (UK) Run Time: 109 mins approx Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of Discs: 2 Director: Ted Kotcheff Actor: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty Region: B/2 Rating: 18

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