Outback

Plot

Outback was based on Kenneth Cook's novel Wake in Fright. Gary Bond plays a naive young Australian teacher who is tragically unprepared for his new position in the outback. The community he has been sent to is populated almost exclusively by amoral, primitive toughs, more interested in slaughtering kangaroos and sexual carousing than in such niceties as education or propriety. The methodical shattering of Bond's dearly held values plunge the young teacher deeper into degeneracy. Outback was so graphic in its original Australian version that 15 minutes had to be cut before American distributor Group W would consider touching it. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

Gary Bond - John Grant; Slim de Grey - Jarvis; Norman Erskine - Joe the Cook; Harry Lawrence - Higgins; John Meillon - Charlie; Donald Pleasence - Doc Tydon; Chips Rafferty - Jock Crawford; Jack Thompson - Dick; Sylvia Kay - Janette Hynes; Al Thomas - Tim Hynes; Peter Whittle - Joe; John Armstrong - Atkins

Credit

Howard Rubie - First Assistant Director, Ted Kotcheff - Director, Howard Rubie - Second Unit Director, Anthony Buckley - Editor, Howard Barnes - Executive Producer, Bill Harmon - Executive Producer, John Scott - Composer (Music Score), Monica Dawkins - Makeup, Dennis Gentle - Production Designer, Brian West - Cinematographer, George W. Willoughby - Producer, Evan Jones - Screenwriter, Kenneth Cook - Book Author

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