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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook
The story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba, plans to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, Australia. But, as his one night stretches to five, he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left
Originally released as a motion picture in 1971
Special features include commentary, To the Yabba and back, Q&A with Ted Kotcheff at the 2009 TIFF, Who needs art?, Chips Rafferty obituary, TV spot, trailers
Director of photography, Brian West ; editor, Anthony Buckley ; music, John Scott
Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Gary Bond, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle
Rating: Not rated
DVD, NTSC, widescreen (1.85:1, 16x9) presentation; Dolby digital 2.0 stereo
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing