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Wake in Fright
1971 · Film · 109 min
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
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Tangentially, a bunch of movies have been filmed in and around Broken Hill[1], including Mad Max 2 and 4, Mission Impossible 2, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Wake in Fright, and my personal favourite cheesy Australian B-Movie, Razorback.
The landscape typically lends itself to that kind of dry post-apocalyptic look, however shooting for Mad Max: Fury Road was relocated to Namibia[2] as heavy rains had caused the area to break out into bloom.
[1] https://www.brokenhill.nsw.gov.au/Services/Filming-in-Broken-Hill/Filmed-In-Broken-Hill
[2] https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection/curated/asset/99353-mad-max-fury-road-nsw-filming-announcement