Image Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray director Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright (1971), starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond and Chips Rafferty. The release will be available for purchase on January 15th, 2013.
Restored and presented by director Martin Scorsese at the Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival, where it won Autour de la Sélection, Heritage Film Award, Wake in Fright, together with Nic Roeg's Walkabout and George Miller's Mad Max, is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema.