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, he also meets …

Picnic: Directed by Joshua Logan. With William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg. Emotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a …

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Early on a September morning, drifter Hal Carter rides a freight train into a small Kansas town seeking his old college friend, wealthy Alan Benson.

On the morning of a small-town Labor Day picnic, drifter Hal Carter (William Holden) blows into town to visit an old fraternity buddy (Alan Benson) who also happens to be the son of the …

Set in a sleepy Kansas town one warm Labor Day weekend, PICNIC focuses on the impact made by a muscle flexing vagrant (William Holden) whose presence causes...

Mar 1, 2020 · These are the words of William Inge, the playwright who won a Pulitzer prize for his 1953 creation, Picnic. The 1955 film version of Inge’s play is exactly that – a piece that “is rich …

Filming began in Salina, Kansas, May 16, 1955. Night-time crowds watched along the Smoky Hill River near an old mill dam as William Holden whipped a "borrowed" convertible with Kim …

A handsome drifter who stumbles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum ends up igniting emotions and turmoil amongst the normally peaceful …