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my half assed 2018 movie diary (40 movies items)" This is one of those movies that was daring in its time, but comes off as sappy and overblown now. It's another one of those 1950s "whiny drifter comes into small town and fucks shit up" little whirlwinds. ex: The Chase, The Wild One, The Long Hot Summer, A Face in the Crowd, Rebel Without a Cause, The Fugitive Kind, etc etc etc William Holden looks a way bit past his prime though he was like 37 in this rip... He's supposed to be smoulderingly sexual or some shit and have all the chicks in"
Picnic Scenes - Movies (26 movies items)" Betty Field, Verna Felton, Kim Novak, William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Arthur O'Connell and Susan Strasberg"
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Female Teachers in Films (50 movies items)"Arthur O'Connell and Rosalind Russell Rosalind Russell as Rosemary Sydney"
“Even in 1955, I find it hard to believe that this was wild, transgressive, erotically charged cinema. Not in a decade that gave us Nicholas Ray’s subterfuge of teenage ennui (Rebel Without a Cause), two of Billy Wilder’s naughtiest comedies (The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot), and numerous Tennessee Williams adaptations (A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof being the cream of the crop). In contrast to those particularly daring and sexually knowing works, Picnic has not aged particularly well. I’m sure there’s still some power packed into the stage show, but the movie does not unfold with the same energy and sense of creation. Director Joshua Logan is too fond of set-ups and compositions that call to mind a proscenium stage instead of a lived-in small town. To” read more
Sisters Characters Part I - Movies (50 movies items)" Kim Novak as Madge Owens and Susan Strasberg as Millie Owens"
Oscars 1956 Winners (My Version) (26 movies items)"Best Art Direction - Color! Winner: Picnic! Nominees: Daddy Long Legs Guys and Dolls Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing To Catch a Thief"
