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Picnic was shot mostly around Hutchinson, Kansas. [5] Other Kansas locations include: Halstead 's Riverside Park is where the Labor Day picnic scenes were filmed.
Picnic is a richly detailed snapshot of life in the American Midwest during the 1950s. In all, five Kansas cities and towns—Salina, Hutchinson, Halstead, Nickerson and Sterling — in the heart of the state were selected to provide the authentic Kansas backdrop for the picture.
Picnic: Directed by Joshua Logan. With William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg. Emotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.
Picnic: Directed by Joshua Logan. With William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg. Emotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.
- (10K)
- Drama, Romance
- Joshua Logan
- 1955-12
Filming began in Salina, Kansas, May 16, 1955. Night-time crowds watched along the Smoky Hill River near an old mill dam as William Holden whipped a "borrowed" convertible with Kim Novak in the passenger seat to a stop along the river. Director Logan, a perfectionist, filmed the scene over and over. A number of spectatoring small boys often got ...
Picnic's Filming Locations: SALINA Salina , Kansas: (90 miles north of Wichita); Several parts were filmed in Salina: (May 10 - 20, 1955); 10 days of shooting;
Smarty Pance heads out to Halstead & Nickerson, Kansas to visit the filming locations of the Movie "Picnic" from 1955!DISCLAIMER:"Picnic" Movie clips are own...
- 18 min
- 2.6K
- The Smarty Pance Show!
