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    Picnic (1955)

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    When a drifter arrives in a small Kansas town during Labour Day celebrations and looks up an old college friend, he is invited to participate in the festivities.

    There he meets his chum’s stunningly attractive fiancée and instantly falls for her.

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    The movie earned six Oscar nominations for its daringly frank depiction (by 1950s standards) of the emotional havoc wreaked on the women of the rustic Kansas town when Holden’s sexy itinerant joins their picnic.

    Holden was not ideal for the role but nonetheless gave a polished performance as the attractive cat among the pigeons – tomboy Susan Strasberg, frustrated spinster Rosalind Russell and town beauty Kim Novak.

    Hal Carter
    William Holden
    Rosemary Sydney
    Rosalind Russell
    Flo Owens
    Betty Field
    Madge Owens
    Kim Novak
    Millie Owens
    Susan Strasberg
    Alan
    Cliff Robertson
    Howard Bevans
    Arthur O’Connell
    Bomber
    Nick Adams

    Director
    Joshua Logan

    Video

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