Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who made William Inge's Picnic into a movie had a problem--how to take fairly intimate play and make it fill their great big Cinemascope screen. They solved it by moving their cameras out to Kansas, which the playwright had only mentioned in the original stage production. This get-together turns out to be a hugh affair, complete with pie-eating competition, talent contests, and all the Mid-western trimmings. The picnic fills the screen, all right, but it is abyssmally dull. A few thousand people franticlly enjoying themselves all over the Kansas countryside are just...
...object of his affection. Needless to say, the fact that the man to whom she is engaged happens to be the bum's sole college friend stops both of them only long enough to provide adequate running time for the film, and, of course, to get that picnic...
...Picnic includes William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, and Sarah Groin. Bring your own sandwiches. State and Orpheum. Orpheum understandably runs 15 minutes ahead of the sovereign State, which asserts itself...
...HONORABLE PICNIC (319 pp.)? Thomas Raucat?Viking...
...Wide, Wide World ostensibly dealt with Our Heritage but this time its ranging from New Orleans to San Francisco, from Carlsbad Caverns to Canada had a postcard unreality: nothing that the viewer saw seemed to be actually happening. Everything-whether a Cajun picnic or a tour of a three-masted schoon-er-appeared to have been elaborately and ineptly staged for television...