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Picnic
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PG,1hr 53min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1955
Director:
Joshua Logan
Distributor:
Sony Picturs Home Entertainment/Columbia Pict
Starring:
William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak  ...more
Synopsis: One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan (Cliff Robertson, in his film debut). Hoping to hit up Alan for a job--or a handout--Hal ends up stealing his buddy's fiancee Madge Owens (Kim Novak). Hal also has a catnip effect on spinster schoolteacher ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler
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Based on a highly acclaimed play and awarded numerous Oscar nominations, Picnic has not aged as well as many other films from the same period. What in 1955 seemed daring and erotic now comes across as overly obvious and frightfully tame, a great deal of much ado about nothing. Worse, the film belies its stage origins, always feeling like a play instead of a movie, despite logical attempts to open it ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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William Holden
Hal Caner, Hal Carter
Rosalind Russell
Rosemary Sydney
Kim Novak
Madge Owens
Betty Field
Flo Owens
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