Written by James M. Tate / 2/27/2018 / No comments / cliff robertson , fifties , kim novak , romance , susan strasberg , william holden
WILLIAM HOLDEN & KIM NOVAK STAR IN A CAMPY 'PICNIC'
Year of Release: 1955
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Camp Value: **1/2 |
Regular Movie Score/Value: *1/2 |
And right beforehand: "I'm getting tired of... just being told I'm... pretty," complains Novak as she's deliberately driven off from the PICNIC by Holden's primal beast, resembling more of an insurance salesman on a lost weekend than an ex-convict back on the run from the law, and this time from kissing the prettiest girl in town in front of his rich buddy/her pseudo boyfriend, Robertson, whose incessant whine, along with Holden's monotone delivery when he's not feigning drunken youth in an awkward, goofy fashion, makes mincemeat of two otherwise great actors. "Let me go, you bum," Robertson shouts to his rougher/tougher ex-crony: "You no good... hobo!" All to the sound of that decade's type of fiercely melodramatic score locked inside of haunting reverberation. That is, until an occasional waist-up-lustful samba-beat ensues as the dames become sporadically mesmerized by Holden's boisterous yet enigmatic persona like daft, dizzy schoolgirls to a flashing image on a picture show screen. Which could be the intention all along. The characters are both the performers and audience.
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