Second Wind (1976)

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Second Wind is a 1976 Canadian sport comedy film, directed and edited by Don (Donald) Shebib, written by Hal Ackerman, and produced by James Margellos. This was the first feature film starring role for actor James Naughton, who portrays a stock broker whose new jogging hobby turns into an obsession to excel at long distance running, straining his career and his relationship with his wife.

Production

In the interview with Weisberg, Shebib says that Hal Ackerman's "script was weak in some ways, and I didn't have time to fix it."

Michael Walsh remarks that the film was made when Canadian producers found it easier to obtain financing if they cast American actors in starring roles, a regular strategy used by producer James Margellos. This was the first feature film starring role for James Naughton, who had appeared in television roles since 1972, and was best known at the time from the single-season 1974 television series Planet of the Apes.

Marni Jackson suggested that Shebib was aware of the film having shortcomings, "and from Shebib's point of view this has as much to do with the teen-age Canadian film industry as his own limitations." He is quoted as complaining about having to raise funds for projects: "You use up all your energy raising money instead of making films if you're a director in this country ...

Second Wind was shot on 35mm (aspect ratio: 1.85:1) over a period of six weeks in late 1975. Reginald H. Morris was pleased that there were no sets: "it was all shot in natural surroundings, in people's houses, in the stock exchange, in bars and so on", in Toronto, Gravenhurst, and London, Ontario.

Hagood Hardy's theme for Second Wind appears on his LP Maybe Tomorrow (Attic Records, 1976).

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