Picnic (1955 Film)

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  • Picnic is a romantic drama that was released February 16, 1956. It stars William Holden as Hal Carter and Kim Novak as Marjorie 'Madge' Owens in a movie set in 1950's Kansas. Nominated for 6 Oscar's including Best Picture, it won Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color and Best Film Editing.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048491/

  • Plot Synopsis

    Hal Carter (William Holden) is out of work and pretty much broke when he shows up in a small Kansas town of Labor Day to hit up his old friend Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson) for a hand out or a job.

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  • Reviews

    "An enormously tedious and overblown adaptation of William Inge's successful play about a drifter (Holden) who arrives in a Kansas town, a brawny sexual presence who changes some of the people's lives. It is typical of the kind of histrionic, slightly daring, small-town stories which always got rave reviews in the '50s on account of their 'dramatic authenticity'. There are admittedly some reasonable performances (Holden, Robertson and Strasberg, in particular), but Kim Novak in a crucial central role is completely flat."—TimeOuthttp://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/71083/picnic.html

    "On the plus side, the cinematography is spectacular, the brand- new print pristine. At worst, ``Picnic offers a pleasant trip back to a time when sex was such a big deal that it rarely happened."—Mick LaSallehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/08/16/DD49016.DTLc

    "It's hard to believe that ``Picnic was considered hot stuff in 1955. Clunky and awkward, with inane dialogue, it's a movie to show how attitudes have changed. It's easy to see why '50s audiences responded--William Holden and Kim Novak look great and generate a certain dutiful chemistry--but hard to see how, in a time when the sexual boldness of movies like ``A Streetcar Named Desire was well-known, people could sit through this with a straight face"—Roger Eberthttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961025/REVIEWS/610250306/1023


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