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Picnic Reviews

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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 .. Read more

Starring	William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg
Director	Joshua Logan
Genres	Drama

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  Nicely-shot but slow and uneventful
  
  I wasn't really sure of the point of this film, apart from many gratuitous shots of William Holden half-naked, being admired by hordes of small-town wives ... read more »
  
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  - Julianna
  - Oxford
  - 08 Sep 2006 at 23:10
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  Holden to your hats, it's a bumpy night.
  
  Impulsive drifter arrives in small Kansas town in the hope of getting work from an old college friend, whose father is a wealthy local businessman. Various ... read more »
  
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- - Oldbloke
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  - Sidmouth
  - 30 May 2011 at 15:34
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  Beautiful evocation of 50's America
  
  This may look like your typical Hollywood product, with its gorgeous photography and sound track, but it's much more than that.
  
  The William Inge ... read more »
  
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- - luvsfilims
  - 10 reviews
  - Weybridge
  - 11 Jun 2009 at 10:04
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  Watchable, but dated
  
  I can see that this film was more ground-breaking in the 1950s than now, in that it depicts fractured family relationships and is far-removed from the Doris Day... read more »
  
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  - Innerleithen
  - 07 Nov 2008 at 09:33
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  Dated
  
  This seemed a very dated film. William Holden seemed totally ill at ease and too old for the role as did Kim Novak who was supposed to be 19 but looked 29.
  
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  - Worthing
  - 24 Aug 2007 at 22:12
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  Skip it
  
  Passions run ridiculously high when frequently unshirted beefcake Holden strides into a small Kansas town and gets all the local women a little hot under the ... read more »
  
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- - RJNeb2
  - 773 reviews
  - London
  - 26 Jan 2007 at 22:57
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  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, ... read more »
  
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- - KEN J.
  - Cleethorpes, England
  - 13 Oct 2006 at 22:27
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  Nicely-shot but slow and uneventful
  
  I wasn't really sure of the point of this film, apart from many gratuitous shots of William Holden half-naked, being admired by hordes of small-town wives ... read more »
  
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- - Julianna
  - Oxford
  - 08 Sep 2006 at 23:10
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- - 0
  - 0
  Nicely-shot but slow and uneventful
  
  I wasn't really sure of the point of this film, apart from many gratuitous shots of William Holden half-naked, being admired by hordes of small-town wives ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 283979
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Julianna
  - Oxford
  - 08 Sep 2006 at 23:10
- - 0
  - 0
  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, ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 373905
- - KEN J.
  - Cleethorpes, England
  - 13 Oct 2006 at 22:27
- - 0
  - 0
  Skip it
  
  Passions run ridiculously high when frequently unshirted beefcake Holden strides into a small Kansas town and gets all the local women a little hot under the ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 406476
- - RJNeb2
  - 773 reviews
  - London
  - 26 Jan 2007 at 22:57
- - 0
  - 0
  Dated
  
  This seemed a very dated film. William Holden seemed totally ill at ease and too old for the role as did Kim Novak who was supposed to be 19 but looked 29.
  
  Report this review
- 469021
- - a customer
  - Worthing
  - 24 Aug 2007 at 22:12
- - 0
  - 0
  Watchable, but dated
  
  I can see that this film was more ground-breaking in the 1950s than now, in that it depicts fractured family relationships and is far-removed from the Doris Day... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 655373
- - a customer
  - Innerleithen
  - 07 Nov 2008 at 09:33
- - 0
  - 0
  Beautiful evocation of 50's America
  
  This may look like your typical Hollywood product, with its gorgeous photography and sound track, but it's much more than that.
  
  The William Inge ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 769506
- - luvsfilims
  - 10 reviews
  - Weybridge
  - 11 Jun 2009 at 10:04
- - 0
  - 0
  Holden to your hats, it's a bumpy night.
  
  Impulsive drifter arrives in small Kansas town in the hope of getting work from an old college friend, whose father is a wealthy local businessman. Various ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 998683
- - Oldbloke
  - 238 reviews
  - Sidmouth
  - 30 May 2011 at 15:34

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  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 (...