A disillusioned teacher in the middle of nowhere Australia goes on his annual holiday starting in The Yabba, a town seemingly full of drunken gamblers. He loses all his money in a bet and goes to stay with a local man and then gets involved with semi mad doctor and alcoholic Donald Pleasence and his charmless, asinine mates.
This is quite a hard watch, but a well put together drama looking at life in a particular part of the world which remains uncomfortable, intimidating and threatening without any real violence* taking place and where lead Gary Bond is slowly dragged into the mire resulting in inevitable tragedy. Pleasence, who can do unpleasant and intimidating in his sleep is particularly impressive, as is Chips Rafferty as the only level headed member of the population - note his amazing capacity for downing beers.
*there is a deeply unpleasant scene where the new drunken friends of Bond go hunting kangaroos for lols - it is an important scene as it hammers home the thinking of the people here, but it is not very nice to watch.
This is quite a hard watch, but a well put together drama looking at life in a particular part of the world which remains uncomfortable, intimidating and threatening without any real violence* taking place and where lead Gary Bond is slowly dragged into the mire resulting in inevitable tragedy. Pleasence, who can do unpleasant and intimidating in his sleep is particularly impressive, as is Chips Rafferty as the only level headed member of the population - note his amazing capacity for downing beers.
*there is a deeply unpleasant scene where the new drunken friends of Bond go hunting kangaroos for lols - it is an important scene as it hammers home the thinking of the people here, but it is not very nice to watch.