Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
- Addiction
- Animal harm
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Donald PleasenceDoc Tydon
- Gary BondJohn Grant
- Chips RaffertyJock Crawford
- Sylvia KayJanette Hynes
- Jack ThompsonDick
- Peter WhittleJoe
- Al ThomasTim Hynes
- John MeillonCharlie
- John ArmstrongAtkins
- Slim DeGreyJarvis
Crew
- Ted KotcheffDirector
- Evan JonesScreenplay
- Ted KotcheffScreenplay
- Kenneth CookNovel
- Brian WestDirector of Photography
- John ScottOriginal Music Composer
- Anthony BuckleyEditor
- George WilloughbyProducer
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