Storyline

After finishing up the school term in a remote outback town, teacher John Grant (Gary Bond) looks forward to spending his holiday with his girlfriend in Sydney. But John gets waylaid in a mining town where a gambling spree leaves him completely broke. He quickly falls in with the hard-drinking locals, who constantly ply him with alcohol and force him to participate in a gruesome kangaroo hunt. Disgusted, John tries to hitchhike out of town and, when that fails, begins to contemplate suicide.

Plot Keywords

schoolteacher, sheriff, doctor, alcoholic, frightful, gritty, school, mining town, bar, australia, gambling, drinking, holidays, stranded, wretched excess, 1960s

Short Review

[Has some] fine photography of the Australian wilds, but also veers into melodrama.

Trailer

Streaming Service

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