Picnic

Titolo originale: Picnic
Regia: Joshua Logan |
Anno: 1955
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Romance
Tag: small town | picnic | based on play or musical | kansas, usa | drifter | labor day | sexual repression | social differences | college friends | mother daughter relationship | sister sister relationship | social prejudice |
Cast: William Holden | Kim Novak | Rosalind Russell | Betty Field | Susan Strasberg | Cliff Robertson | Arthur O'Connell | Verna Felton | Reta Shaw | Nick Adams | Raymond Bailey | Elizabeth Wilson | Phyllis Newman |

Nel Kansas il Labor Day viene celebrato con un picnic sull'erba. Si preparano all'evento Madge e Millie, la non più giovane maestra Rosemary, l'amico di famiglia Howard e Alan, fidanzato di Madge. Ma quest'anno c'è una novità: si tratta di Hal Carter, un amico di Alan. La sua presenza fungerà da catalizzatore per tutte le tensioni del gruppo.

Frasi

Flo Owens: It would be awfully nice to be married [...] D
Millie Owens: The way she primps and fusses, someb [...] D
Millie Owens: When I graduate from college I'm goi [...] D
Madge Owens: I'm going to Tulsa, Mom. Flo Owens: [...] D
Flo Owens: Mrs. Owens, this is Christine Schoenwal [...] D
Madge Owens: Oh, Ma, what good is it just to be pr [...] D
Madge Owens: I'll try hardest of all not to get co [...] D
Madge Owens: You're a wonderful dancer. Hal Carte [...] D
Helen Potts: It'll be awful hot in that jacket. Yo [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: [Giddily to her schoolteacher fri [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: You'll end your life in the *gutt [...] D
Millie Owens: The ones we love are always pretty, [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: Howard Bevans? He's just a friend [...] D
Flo Owens: Where is everybody? Helen Potts: At a [...] D
Flo Owens: He's no good. He'll never be able to su [...] D
Flo Owens: If she loses her chance when she's youn [...] D
Howard Bevans: Mighty pretty legs. Rosemary Sidne [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: Its his turn to dance with me. I [...] D
Hal Carter: Now, don't you blow your top, ma'am. I [...] D
Alan Benson: Before you get to be President of the [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: You're a fake! You're no jive kid [...] D
Millie Owens: For once in your life, do something [...] D
Madge Owens: Bomber was right. You are a goon! Mi [...] D
Madge Owens: I get so tired of just being told I'm [...] D
Hal Carter: I learned something today and it's tha [...] D
Hal Carter: I stole another guy's motorcycle. I st [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: You remind me of one of those old [...] D
Alan Benson: What babe? Hal Carter: The babe that [...] D
Howard Bevans: You went for that Owens girl, didn' [...] D
Hal Carter: I gotta get somewhere in this world. I [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: Each year I keep tellin' myself t [...] D
Bomber: Be on your way, lover boy. D
Howard Bevans: [to Rosemary] If a woman's going to [...] D
Howard Bevans: A young man comin' to town has *got [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: Look at that sunset, Howard! How [...] D
Hal Carter: What I was hopin' was that, you and yo [...] D
Hal Carter: Then I said, "Okay, girls, party's ove [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: Workin' over their *naked* as an [...] D
Bomber: I can't send you flowers, baby; but, eh, I [...] D
Howard Bevans: You don't have to tell me. I unders [...] D
Hal Carter: Beat it, baby! I'm in a pretty bad moo [...] D
Howard Bevans: You've got your troubles, and I've [...] D
Hal Carter: I don't know if its such a good idea o [...] D
Alan Benson: I heard you went to Hollywood to beco [...] D
Flo Owens: Madge, does Alan ever make love? Mad [...] D
Hal Carter: He said, "Son, there'll be times when [...] D
Alan Benson: Where have you been all these years? [...] D
Millie Owens: How do you talk to boys? Madge Owen [...] D
Hal Carter: What's the use, Baby? I'm a bum. She s [...] D
Rosemary Sidney: People? What will people say if I [...] D
Madge Owens: The others. We've got to get back to [...] D