Picnic
Summary:
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 ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
William Holden - (Hal Carter)
Rosalind Russell - (Rosemary Sydney)
Kim Novak - (Madge Owens)
Betty Field - (Flo Owens)
Susan Strasberg - (Millie Owens)
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Review:
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 ... Continue >>
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