Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundayabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one night stretches to five and 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...
《巴斯特·斯克鲁格斯的歌谣》是由六个部分组成的西部题材选集电影,乔尔·科恩和伊桑·科恩利用他们独树一帜又无与伦比的视角,讲述了关于美国边境的系列故事。电影的每一章都讲述了一则独特的美国西部故事。