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| Picnic | 
 enlarge | Director: Joshua Logan
Actors: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.94
Buy New: $12.07
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Avg. Customer Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 7711
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Portuguese (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: COLD82879D
ISBN: 0767827791
UPC: 043396828797
EAN: 9780767827799
ASIN: 0767827791
Theatrical Release Date: January 1, 1955
Release Date: April 18, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Five Star Seller!!! New, factory sealed US Region 1 DVD. Item is 100% guaranteed not to be a bootleg or import. Item is shipped directly from our warehouse. Easy exchange if item defective or damaged in shipped.
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 Beware, this is full-screen junk, not wide-screen. October 12, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This arrived today, Oct 12th, 2007. I was excited to own a copy of one of my favorite movies, and popped it into the DVD player right away.
What a HUGE disappointment. First you get the "formatted for this screen" disclaimer, then you see the Columbia logo and the titles in wide-screen (as this SHOULD be), then it's pan-n-scan full screen garbage! This movie took full avantage of the wide screen, and this DVD ruins that.
Amazon, fix the description of this movie. It's NOT in the original aspect ratio. Buyers... skip this until Columbia does this the right way.
 location for the picnic scenes. September 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some or all of the on location actual picnicing scenes were shot in Halstead Kansas. There is a metal plaque attached to a flat rock in the city park commemorating the filming there. There is a small river with a falls and a pedestrian bridge crossing the river. There was a baseball field adjacent the picnic grounds that had high bleachers similar to what Roz and A. O'C. sat upon. I was there about 20 years ago with my brother who was looking for a teaching job in the area. It was a blistering hot summer day and the park was very empty, dusty and neglected. The plaque looked and felt like a gravestone.It was quite a contrast to the polish and shine that the Hollywood production standards brought-- or maybe 30 years had taken its toll. I felt an odd sense of loss. I knew it was just a movie and that Hal and Madge were hollywood actors making alot of money--- but the illusion of the fictional place and people,----the movie illusion, was pretty powerful. No use looking for Mrs Potts, she'd probably passed on by then.
Full-Screen...YES!!! September 9, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I LOVE the fact that this DVD is a FULL-SCREEN version! I don't know why the studios that produce these DVDs don't come out with discs that are full-screen on one side and wide-screen on the other, like my version of 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' and 'Forbidden Planet' are! I'll take FULL-SCREEN any day!
I wasn't going to buy this film until I realized it was full-screen.
Hard movie to find in DVD September 5, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I couldn't find "Picnic" locally, I turned to AMAZAON. My order arrived promptly - however when we popped it in the DVD player excitedly, there were weird subtitles. Also, the quality of color could be better. It wasn't until after we watched the entire movie that we discovered it was pre-set with subtitles in Korean. The second time I watched it alone, I had to reset the monitor to "English with no subtitles." There should have been an accompanying note of explanation.
 Picnic 1955 July 5, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's labor day weekend , and fresh off a freight train is Hal Carter (William Holden 1918-1981) , a happy-go-luck drifter looking for a brand new star in life . A robust , handsome show-off , Hal is coming to Kansas to seek gainful employment in his old fratenity brother Alan's ( Cliff Robertson 1925 - ) Family granary but despite his high hopes and expectations , Hal's ambitous plans soon go awrt when his sexuall magnetism attracts every woman in town , including 19-year old Madge Owens (Kim Novak 1933 - ) - the alluring young beauty queen who also happends to be Alan's girlfriend . Also Starring Rosalind Russel (1907-1976) , Arthur O'Connel 1908-1981)Susan Strasberg
1938-1999) , Nick Adams (1931 - 1968) . Picnic was nominated for six Academy Awards . Best Director (Joshua Logan 1908-1988) . Best Supporting
Actor (O'Connel) . Best Music . Best Color Art director and Best Editing . High Quality Trasnfer .
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