• glimse@lemmy.world
        4·
        20 days ago

        It did not but it got me to read about a movie I didn’t know existed so I appreciate the link

          • glimse@lemmy.world
            1·
            20 days ago

            Wake in Fright (initially released as Outback outside Australia) is a 1971 Australian New Wave film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay and Jack Thompson

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            Despite attracting positive reviews at the time, the film was a commercial failure in Australia, in part due to scant marketing by United Artists, as well as controversy surrounding its portrayal of outback life, including a hunting scene in which real kangaroos are shot and killed.