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PICNIC Blu-Ray-at last! a copy in the original Widescreen and a beauifully restored print. I love this movie; it is one of my favorite top 5 romances. I originally purchased the so-called "Restored" version released in 2000: it is anything but, and an awful copy that is printed in fullscreen, which chops up and destroys the original beauty.
As her love interest, Arthur O'Connell has a quiet strength that plays very nicely off of Russell. Picnic also benefits from its rich cinematography, capturing the golden tones of a summer day with beauty and precision, and from its sinuous score. Logan would direct the film version of another Inge play, Bus Stop, the following year.
Picnic (1955) Great holiday film (Labor Day) about a drifter played by William Holden and his effect on a small town which includes Kim Novak Betty Field Rosalind Russell and Arthur O’Connell (who received his first of his two unrewarded Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor) Susan Strasberg and Cliff Robertson.
Drifter Hal Carter hitchhikes by train to a small town to visit his college friend Alan Benson, the son of industrialist Mr. Benson, the wealthiest person in town. Hal asks Ms. Helen Potts for a job and the old lady, who feels affection for him, tells him that nobody works on Labor Day. She gives him breakfast and meets her next-door neighbor ...
Picnic (1955) Great holiday film (Labor Day) about a drifter played by William Holden and his effect on a small town which includes Kim Novak Betty Field Rosalind Russell and Arthur O’Connell (who received his first of his two unrewarded Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor) Susan Strasberg and Cliff Robertson.
Christine Schoenwalder (as Elizabeth W. Wilson) Rosalind Russell. ... Rosemary the Schoolteacher. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Warren Frederick Adams. ... Stranger (uncredited) Carle E. Baker.
It's Labor Day weekend, and fresh off a freight train is Hal Carter (William Holden), a happy-go-lucky drifter who's looking for a brand new start in life. A robust, handsome show-off, Hal has come to Kansas to seek gainful employment in his old fraternity brother Alan's family granary. But despite his high hopes and expectations, Hal's ambitious plans soon go away when his sexual magnetism ...
