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Movie Reviews of Picnic : Restored
Movie Review: location for the picnic scenes.
Summary: 5 Stars
Some or all of the on location actual picnicing scenes were shot in Halstead Kansas. There is a metal plaque attached to a flat rock in the city park commemorating the filming there. There is a small river with a falls and a pedestrian bridge crossing the river. There was a baseball field adjacent the picnic grounds that had high bleachers similar to what Roz and A. O'C. sat upon. I was there about 20 years ago with my brother who was looking for a teaching job in the area. It was a blistering hot summer day and the park was very empty, dusty and neglected. The plaque looked and felt like a gravestone.It was quite a contrast to the polish and shine that the Hollywood production standards brought-- or maybe 30 years had taken its toll. I felt an odd sense of loss. I knew it was just a movie and that Hal and Madge were hollywood actors making alot of money--- but the illusion of the fictional place and people,----the movie illusion, was pretty powerful. No use looking for Mrs Potts, she'd probably passed on by then.Movie Review: Dripping with lust!
Summary: 5 Stars
Picnic is one of those films that just transports the viewer into another time and era and that's the sign of a truly great film. Holden has the daunting task of playing a loveable hustler with big dreams that he just can't make happen. So he decides to go back to familiar grounds and falls for kim Novak. Novak is a treasure in this movie her exotic beauty and shaky voice highlights her characters uneveness to conform into the town's perfect beautiful young woman. This film at it's time was billed as too sexy due to the dance that Novak and Holden share at the picnic and till this day the scene holds up great. The lust in both their eyes and Novaks raw sex appeal against Holden's rugged good looks is a sight to be hold. But the back story which I won't give a hint of is the true tale of this flick and shows how human nature is always determined by the role society wants you to play based on your looks! This film still holds up today as a work of pure sexual energy and raw human emotions.Movie Review: A subtle movie! A Dynamite Cast! A Gorgeous Score!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a subtle and rewarding film. The cast is magnificent--the performances great! One of my favorite film scores too!A hint for watching the movie. With each viewing, I find I have been concentrating on a different actor. Kim Novak is definitely at her peak; William Holden is remarkable; Rosalind Russell is at her very best, with a fantastically varied and difficult part; Susan Strasberg is wonderful indeed. All of the supporting actors are super too! And this IS primarily a story of individuals' lives, and how they are changed.
The film gives a remarkably accurate picture of life in 1950's rural Kansas. But onto this background is thrust a love story of great interest and appeal. The film has super color and fine sound (for its era anyway).
The film is, quite simply, astounding. Don't rent it....buy it, bucause it just gets better and better with repeated watchings!
Movie Review: Moonglow moments
Summary: 5 Stars
You know it's good:1. It's the look on William Holden's face when he first catches a glimpse of Kim Novak coming down the stairs in that pink dress. ("Madge is the pretty one"--she sure is)
2. It's the way she shimmies up to him. Revealing her intentions, she never loses eye contact or says a word.
3. It's the moment he takes her into his arms to dance close--he gives a little sigh of pleasure.
4. It's the look on his face when he's dancing--that criptic smile of pleasure and sensuality--all the while knowing that she's totally off limits.
and of course the song itself. This scene in itself makes the movie and with DVD you can play it over and over and over... Not many dance scenes have stood the test of time. I loved it. What can I say--I'm a chick.
Movie Review: Wonderful acting
Summary: 5 Stars
Hal Carter (William Holden) comes from nothing and seems to be headed towards nothing. He flunked out of college where he had a football scholarship and since then he has been drifting, hoping for somewhere to settle and make something of himself. Hal jumps off of the train in a small Midwestern town where his old college buddy Alan Benson's father owns the local grain elevator.
Things are looking up for Hal until he catches the eye of not only Alan's girlfriend Madge Owens, but Madge's younger sister Millie and unmarried schoolteacher Rosemary. All comes to a head at the town's end of summer Labor Day Picnic. Holden, Kim Novak, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell, and Susan Strasberg provide wonderful acting in this drama from a play by William Inge.