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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Joshua Logan
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Actors:
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Susan Strasberg,
Verna Felton,
Kim Novak,
Rosalind Russell,
Raymond Bailey,
Betty Field,
Nick Adams,
William Holden,
Cliff Robertson,
Arthur O'Connell,
Reta Shaw,
Elizabeth Wilson
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Duration:
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113 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)118
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Plot Summary:
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Academy Present-winning drama hither the results of a handsome, virile and egotistic tramp on the lives of five women in a elfin Kansas town floor Elbow-grease Day weekend.
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Tags:
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Picnic
William Holden and Kim Novak star in this atmospheric drama, directed by the writer of South Pacific. A charismatic drifter arrives in a small Kansas town and hones in on the local beauty queen
A massive hit on its first release in 1955, this adaptation of William Inge's Broadway play, directed by South Pacific writer Joshua Logan, smoulders rather than explodes, and that's a large part of its enduring appeal. It's a love story, it paints a poignant picture of small-town life, and in Holden and Novak it has two charismatic stars at the peak of their powers.
Set in the Kansas town of Neewollah (read that backwards), Hal Carter (Holden) is the drifter who arrives one Labor Day. Formerly a football hero, now he's on the skids and hopes old college friend...
2nd Time Around
First saw this film in 1955, I was a teenager then and Kim Novak was my idol I am in my 70's now and still think she is the best thig since sliced bread, The film is pretty good too.
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