Wake In Fright (1971)

Directed by Ted Kotcheff · Cinematography by Brian West

R109 min64 frames

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Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.

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What is Wake In Fright about?

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Wake in Fright is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Evan Jones, and starring Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, and Jack Thompson. Based on Kenneth Cook's 1961 novel of the same name, it follows a young schoolteacher who descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

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What does the cinematography of Wake In Fright look like?

Across 64 sampled frames, Wake In Fright builds its coverage from medium shots (42% of the sample), with wide compositions (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Brian West keeps 44% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. 53% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1970s.

What is the color palette of Wake In Fright?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Wake In Fright (1971) are #333029, #0d0d0b, #d2ccb2, #322619, #54492e, #918a6e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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