'Weekend of Shadows' (1978) was made and released about thirteen years after Hugh Atkinson's source novel 'The Reckoning' was first published in 1965.
Lead Actor John Waters once said of his part in this film, the movie's central character of Rabbit: "I've generally been cast as a heavy criminal or a romantic hero. It's nice to be able to play around with a character with a few hidden levels".
Many of the local people of Macclesfield in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia appeared in the movie as extras totaling over two hundred.
Development on 'Weekend of Shadows' (1978) started just over four years before it was released, around 1974, when the first draft of the screenplay was written by writer Peter Yeldham.
Actor Graeme Blundell once said the film 'Weekend of Shadows' (1978): "The acting was very much of an ensemble thing. All the actors had to spend a lot of time together, because most of the action involves a group hunting for a man. This carried over into our time away from the cameras. We were all staying in Adelaide, and in a sense, we went hunting around Adelaide together when we weren't working".