History Film / WakeInFright

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Fed up with the town and its inhabitants, and unable to take the train out of there, John instead decides he has to leave through any means necessary to go on an audious journey through the Outback, mostly on foot and staying alive by hunting for food. He eventually happens upon a truck stop, and manages to score a lift with a truck driver who he assumes is heading for Sydney. It turns out he misunderstood the man, who actually ends up returning John returning to The Yabba instead.]]

John Grant (Gary Bond) is a middle-class school teacher from UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}} who is forced to teach in a remote Australian Outback outpost to pay off tertiary education. It is the Christmas holidays and John is traveling to Sydney to visit his girlfriend Robyn, but must first travel through the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba (known as “The Yabba”) in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Grant finally manages to get out of the Yabba, but not before being corrupted by the town, and implied to have become an alcoholic by the end.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Grant by the end. [[BlungedSuicide He fails, though.]]]]

At "The Yabba", Grant encounters several of the locals including a policeman, Jock Crawford (Chips Rafferty), who encourages Grant to consume repeated glasses of beer before introducing him to the local obsession with the gambling game of two-up. Hoping to win enough money to pay off his tertiary education and escape the outback, Grant at first has a winning streak playing two-up but then loses all his cash. Unable now to leave "The Yabba", Grant finds himself dependent on the charity of bullying strangers while being drawn into the crude and hard-drinking lifestyle of the town's residents. In particular, Grant's drawn to Doc Tydon (Creator/DonaldPleasence), a disgraced Sydney doctor with an unnerving personality.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Grant finally manages to get out of the Yabba, but not before being corrupted by the town, and implied to have become an alcoholic by the end.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Grant by the end. He fails, though.]]

''Wake in Fright'', also known as ''Outback'', is a 1971 Australian PsychologicalThriller[=/=]PsychologicalHorror film based on the 1961 book of the same name by Kenneth Cook.

John Grant (Gary Bond) is a middle-class school teacher from Sydney who is forced to teach in a remote Australian Outback outpost to pay off tertiary education. It is the Christmas holidays and John is traveling to Sydney to visit his girlfriend Robyn, but must first travel through the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba (known as “The Yabba”) in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight.

''Wake in Fright'', also known as ''Outback'', is a 1971 Australian PsychologicalThriller[=/=]PsychologicalHorror film based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Cook.

John Grant (Gary Bond) is a middle class school teacher from Sydney who is forced to teach in a remote Australian Outback outpost to pay off tertiary education. It is the Christmas holidays and John is traveling to Sydney to visit his girlfriend but must first travel through the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba (known as “The Yabba”) in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Grant by the end. He fails though.]]

John Grant (Gary Bond) is a middle class school teacher from Sydney who is forced to teach in a remote Australian Outback outpost to pay off tertiary education. It is the Christmas holidays and John is traveling to Sydney to visit his girl friend but must first travel through the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba (known as “The Yabba”) in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight.

''Wake in Fright'', also known as ''Outback'', is a 1971 Australian PsychologicalHorror film based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Cook.

* TheAlcoholic: Everybody

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: There's no fighting, and there's no monsters, but Grant gradually starts adopting the locals' habits, despite his opinion that they're beneath him.

!!''Wake in Fright'' provides examples of:

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Ruthlessly averted. The film features a violent kangaroo hunt about halfway through, and there's some controversy over whether the kangaroos were actually killed for the movie, or whether the filmmakers merely shot footage of a professional cull.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: John Grant finally manages to get out of the Yabba, but not before being corrupted by the town, and implied to have become an alcoholic by the end.]]

* AntiVillain: Jock and Doc. Neither man does anything especially evil, but they're depicted as antagonists drawing Grant into their debauched lifestyle.
** Averted for Doc. [[spoiler: He gets John near-unconsciously drunk and then takes advantage of him. Twice.]]

''Wake in Fright'', also known as ''Outback'', is a 1971 Australian film based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Cook.

->''Come have a drink with me!''

'''''Wake in Fright''''' also known as ''Outback'' is a 1971 Australian film based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Cook.

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Ruthlessly averted. The film features a quite violent kangaroo hunt, though it's up to question whether the kangaroos were killed for the movie, or if the filmmakers had used footage of a professional cull.

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Ruthlessly averted.

'''''Wake in fright''''' also known as ''Outback'' is a 1971 Australian film based on the book of the same name by Kenneth Cook.

!!''Wake in fright'' provides examples of:

** Averted for Doc.[[spoiler: He gets John near-unconsciously drunk and then takes advantage of him. Twice.]]

%%* CrapsackWorld

%%* SanitySlippage

At "The Yabba", Grant encounters several of the locals including a policeman, Jock Crawford (Chips Rafferty), who encourages Grant to consume repeated glasses of beer before introducing him to the local obsession with the gambling game of two-up. Hoping to win enough money to pay off his tertiary education and escape the outback, Grant at first has a winning streak playing two-up but then loses all his cash. Unable now to leave "The Yabba", Grant finds himself dependent on the charity of bullying strangers while being drawn into the crude and hard-drinking lifestyle of the town's residents. In particular, Grant's drawn to Doc Tydon (Creator/DonaldPleasance), a disgraced Sydney doctor with an unnerving personality.

'''''Wake in fright''''' also known as ''Outback'' is a 1971 Australian film based on the book of the same name.

'''Wake in fright''' also known as Outback is a 1971 Australian film based on the book of the same name.

At "The Yabba", Grant encounters several of the locals including a policeman, Jock Crawford (Chips Rafferty), who encourages Grant to consume repeated glasses of beer before introducing him to the local obsession with the gambling game of two-up. Hoping to win enough money to pay off his tertiary education and escape the outback, Grant at first has a winning streak playing two-up but then loses all his cash. Unable now to leave "The Yabba", Grant finds himself dependent on the charity of bullying strangers while being drawn into the crude and hard-drinking lifestyle of the town's residents. In particular, Grant's drawn to Doc Tydon (DonaldPleasance), a disgraced Sydney doctor with an unnerving personality.

* CrapsackWorld

* SanitySlippage
* ValuesDissonance: What the film runs on, particularly the kangaroo shooting scenes.

* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: Grant by the end. He fails though.]]

At "The Yabba", Grant encounters several of the locals including a policeman, Jock Crawford (Chips Rafferty), who encourages Grant to consume repeated glasses of beer before introducing him to the local obsession with the gambling game of two-up. Hoping to win enough money to pay off his tertiary education and escape the outback, Grant at first has a winning streak playing two-up but then loses all his cash. Unable now to leave "The Yabba", Grant finds himself dependent on the charity of bullying strangers while being drawn into the crude and hard-drinking lifestyle of the town's residents.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Doc.

* OnlySaneMan: John Grant