1971 · 1h 49m · R
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job. At the end of term before Christmas holidays, he plans to visit his girlfriend in Sydney. In order to catch a flight to Sydney, he takes a train to the nearby mining town called Bundanyabba (or "The Yabba"), and plans to stay there overnight before moving on further to the airport. But things go grossly out of script as he is engulfed by the Yabba and its disconcerting residents.
Donald Pleasence
Doc Tydon
Gary Bond
John Grant
Chips Rafferty
Jock Crawford
Sylvia Kay
Janette Hynes
Jack Thompson
Dick
Peter Whittle
Joe
Al Thomas
Tim Hynes
John Meillon
Charlie
John Armstrong
Atkins
Slim DeGrey
Jarvis
Maggie Dence
Receptionist
Norm Erskine
Joe the Cook
Owen Moase
1st Controller
John Dalleen
2nd Controller
Buster Fiddess
Charlie Jones
Tex Foote
Stubbs
Colin Hughes
Stockman
Jacko Jackson
Van Driver
Nancy Knudsen
Robyn
Dawn Lake
Joyce
Harry Lawrence
Higgins
Robert McDarra
Pig Eyes
Carlo Manchini
Poker Player
Liam Reynolds
Miner
Gordon Piper
Two-Up Player (uncredited)