{"id":5029,"date":"2025-08-01T03:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:28:44","slug":"picnic-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=5029","title":{"rendered":"Picnic-1955"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picnic-1955<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Joshua Logan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring William Holden, Kim Novak<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 250 Films #81<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #550<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed December 19, 2016<\/p>\n

Grade: A-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Picnic is a classic 1955 film that is wonderful to watch over Labor Day weekend or anytime during the humid summer season.<\/p>\n

The film perfectly depicts summertime in a tiny town in Kansas. It is a slice-of-life story about life in middle America during the 1950s, despite its trials and tribulations.<\/p>\n

William Holden stars as a “wrong side of the tracks” type of guy who arrives in a quiet Kansas town on Labor Day weekend, disrupting the town’s events and causing scandals for the townspeople.<\/p>\n

He is a hunky former college football player and exudes sexuality.<\/p>\n

He then falls in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Madge Owens, played by Kim Novak. The chemistry between the two stars is the film’s main appeal.<\/p>\n

The supporting cast makes this film unique (Arthur O’Connell and Rosalind Russell star as townspeople who are in a relationship of their own).<\/p>\n

Picnic also contains a gorgeous and lovely musical score, precisely “Theme from Picnic” and “Moonglow”.<\/p>\n

It is shot on location in Kansas, mostly in and around Hutchinson, and is considered classic summer enjoyment.<\/p>\n

Based on the Pulitzer-award-winning play.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations<\/strong>: 2 wins<\/strong>-Best Motion Picture, Best Director-Joshua Logan, Best Supporting Actor-Arthur O’Connell, Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Art Direction, Color (won)<\/strong>, Best Film Editing (won)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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