Nobody Waved Goodbye

Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)

A startling film that shows what teenagers feel... but never tell!

A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

Date of release
1964-11-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Drama
Director
Don Owen
Collection
The Marks Family Cycle

Casting

Interesting facts

Nobody Waved Good-bye is a 1964 National Film Board of Canada production directed by Don Owen, starring Peter Kastner, Julie Biggs and Claude Rae. A sequel, Unfinished Business, was released in 1984.

Production

Don Owen initially wanted to create First Offence, a half-hour television film about probation officers with occasional dramatization, with a budget of $35,000 for the National Film Board of Canada. After filming started Owen believed that it could be extended into a feature film and executive producer Tom Daly increased the budget to $75,000 (equivalent to $750,915 in 2025).

Owen shot 60,000 feet of film, thirty hours of footage, from 21 August to 14 December 1963, in Toronto using 16 mm film. He stated that he was inspired by the direct cinema films of Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx. The film was later blown up to 35 mm. It was filmed with a budget of $73,593 (equivalent to $736,827 in 2025).

The scene of Peter working at a parking lot was shot using hidden cameras and all of the patrons were non-actors. A woman recognized Peter Kastner and talked to him without knowing that she was being filmed.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended