DVD
Picnic
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Languages
In English, Portuguese or Spanish, with optional English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean or Thai subtitles; closed-captioned.
Performers
William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell, Arthur O'Connell, Nick Adams.
Publication Information
Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2005]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG; for mild language and thematic elements.
Summary
It's Labor Day weekend, and fresh off a freight train is Hal Carter, 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 awry when his sexual magnetism attracts every woman in town, including 19-year-old Madge Owens, the alluring young beauty queen who also happens to be Alan's girlfriend.
Notes
Title from containter.
Based upon the play "Picnic" by William Inge.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1955.
Special features: photo montage ; vintage advertising ; bonus previews ; talent files ; theatrical trailers.