Wake In Fright (Blu-ray) (Widescreen)

Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, "Wake in Fright" is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left... Believed lost for many years, "Wake in Fright" has been painstakingly restored by Australia's National Film and Sound Archive and AtLab Deluxe, and is presented in its original uncompromising form. Audio commentary with director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley, To the 'Yabba and back...: featurette by not quite Hollywood director Mark Hartley, Q&A with Kotcheff at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, "ABC's 7:30 report" on the rediscovery and restoration of the film, Who needs art?: vintage segment on Wake In Fright, Chips Rafferty obituary, Theatrical trailers, 28-page booklet. Subtitles: English.