Picnic (1955)

Directors

Joshua Logan

Cast

William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell

The story

On the morning of Labor Day 1955, a freight train brings vagrant Hal Carter to a Kansas town to visit his fraternity friend Alan Benson. While he stays with kind Helen Potts, Hal also meets Alan's girlfriend Madge Owens, her sister Millie, and their mother Flo. Alan shows the "same old Hal" around his family's sprawling grain-elevator operations and promises Hal a steady job as a "wheat scooper." Alan has invited Hal to attend the town's Labor Day picnic, where they encounter Rosemary, a middle-aged schoolteacher accompanied by her friend Howard Bevans.

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