Picnic
Joshua Logan / US, 1955 / 113 min.
Classic from Columbia Pictures, which recently celebrated its centenary. Charismatic drifter (William Holden) shakes an idyllic town to its core when he awakens explosive desires in local beauty queen (Kim Novak).
A posh town in Kansas around 1955 readies itself for the annual Labor Day picnic. On the surface, the town seems idyllic, yet behind all the jovial “how-d'ya-do's” and pie-eating contests lurk less rustic desires: an aging schoolmarm (Rosalind Russell), a desperate teen (Susan Strasberg) and the local beauty queen Madge (Kim Novak), who is “tired of being stared at”. She wishes she was as smart as her younger sister and could go to university. Her mother gives her the sobering advice to quickly marry some rich boy.
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Director
Joshua Logan
Production year
1955
Country
US
Original title
Picnic
Length
113 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NONE
Format
DCP
Part of
The Lady with the Torch
Legendary Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures is celebrating its centenary, and we’re marking the occasion with a rich programme on the company’s glory days. The films, including rediscoveries and surprising, seldom-seen B movies, show that art and commerce need not be mutually exclusive.
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