A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.

• NLT
• Group W
• Gary Bond
• Donald Pleasence
• Chips Rafferty
• Sylvia Kay
• Jack Thompson
• Peter Whittle
• Al Thomas
• John Meillon