Filming
The film was filmed chronologically from start to finish over six weeks in late 1979. Filming began in Kaitaia and ended in Invercargill. Director Geoff Murphy, was good friends with Tony Barry (Smith) and Bruno Lawrence many years prior to Goodbye Pork Pie. They were all in Bruno's band Blerta.
Geoff Murphy appears in the film at the second petrol station. Nigel Hutchinson sells a banana milk shake "with an egg in it" to John a short time before Gerry falls off the car.
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