Picnic
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Time Out says
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.Author: DP
Release details
UK release:
1955
Duration:
113 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Arthur O'Connell, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Betty Field, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, William Holden, Nick Adams
Music:
Production Designer:
Editor:
William A Lyon, Charles Nelson
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