Weekend of Shadows

Weekend of Shadows (1978)

In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.

Date of release
1978-06-28
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Crime
Director
Tom Jeffrey

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: A$61K
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2

Weekend of Shadows is a 1978 film directed by Tom Jeffrey and starring John Waters.

Production

Writer Peter Yeldham later called the film a "real disaster... we had constant changes and insecurity about it, right up to the day of shooting. I think many of these changes didn't help the film."

Shooting commenced in July 1977 in Macclesfield in the Adelaide Hills. The film was a commercial disappointment. Director Tom Jeffrey: I screened the film to Hugh Atkinson, the writer of the novel, after we had finished it and he came up to me afterwards and I remember him saying quite clearly, "You've got it." I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "You understand the ending." And I still didn't know whether I had it right, whether I was on his wa…

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