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I wonder what’s infamous with some of these corporations that release dvd’s of classic American films. We aren’t given a choice of widescreen or fullscreen most of the time. I’ll acquire widescreen any day.
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If a film came out after 1953, chances are that it was filmed in widescreen. Then, when it was eventually sold to play on TV, it was altered (shrunk or cropped down) to fit into the square shape of the TV shroud, thus losing one third of the image.
I retract the dark bars because I know that the image I search for between them is exactly what people saw in the movie theater when the film was originally shown to audiences … a nice wide rectangle like we explore on the silver shroud.
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This dvd of Picnic is “modified from its new version…it has been formatted to fit this camouflage”, as the message flashes before the film begins. Yet, the Columbia torch bearer lady and the opening credits are in the unusual aspect ratio. And then we reduce from William Holden to the home of Verna Felton (Mrs. Potts) and, POOF, we suddenly have a grainy, shrunken, pan-and-scan fullscreen image for the rest of the film. A broad disappointment.
The aspect ratio is not 2.35:1 as advertised in the product description above.
In a decade of conformity and colossal prosperity William Inge and Tennessee Williams tackled subjects ahead of their time. Of course they in some cases had to shroud the subject matter but that lead to some fabulous revelations in writing and reading between the lines. In this DVD from Colombia of Inge’s Pulitzer Prize winning `Picnic’ we have one of the best films of this genre of sexual repression, animal heat, and desperation in slight town America.
Most reviewers of this film might originate with the leads but I must begin of with the improbable Verna Felton as Helen Potts the sweet passe lady who is caretaker of her veteran mother and lives next door to the Owens family. This gifted and now forgotten character actress sets the tone of the portray as she welcomes drifter Hal Carter (William Holden) into her house. At the extinguish of the film she glows in tender counterpoint to the dramatic ending. She is the only person who understands Hal, even more than Madge (Kim Novak) . Her speech about having a man in the house is pure joy to glance. It is a puny but significant performance that frames the entire narrative with warmth and thought.
Betty Field turns in a beneficial performance as Flo Owens, Mother of Madge and Millie. She is disapproving of Millie’s rebellious teen and smothering of her Kansas hothouse rose Madge. A single Mom trying in desperation to preserve Madge from making the same mistakes she did. She becomes so wrapped up in Madge’s potential for marriage to the richest boy in town she completely ignores the budding greatness that is bursting to derive out in her valid adore. Millie.
Susan Strasberg creates in her Millie a sweet funny oddball. She is the youngest daughter who awkwardly moves through the landscape nearly un-noticed, reading the snide “Ballad of the Unlit Café” being the only one who is different and can’t shroud it. Her yearning to find out of the smallness of microscopic town life is colored with the skill of a young actress with greatness her.
Rosalind Russell nearly steals the note as the fourth woman in the Owens household boarder, Rosemary, a frantic, hopeless and clutching spinster. In the wonderful hands of Miss Russell we have a exact powerhouse of a performance. She imbues Rosemary with all the uptight disapproval of a woman who knows that her time has past and there are very few options left. She is electric in her need for adore. Every nuance of her emotions is sublime in her presentation. Objective witness her hands alone.
Floating above all of this is Madge Owens, the kind of girl who is too magnificent to be dependable. The kind of girl who in a dinky town like this is not understood to have any true feelings or thoughts other than those that revolve around being elegant and empty. Enter Kim Novak, who is honest such a girl. Who could ever put a question to such a beauty to be anything more than honest gorgeous? But Miss Novak, a vastly underrated actress in her day paints a vivid and blooming portrait of Madge. Her explosion of sexual heat upon meeting Hal for the first time is internal and barely perceptible until she looks at him from gradual the safety of the camouflage door the destroy of their first scene. That shroud door is a firewall protecting her from the flames. She fights in the early fraction of the film to sustain her sexual desire for Hal in check. That night she loses her fight at the picnic and we seek as she opens to sigh a woman of feelings and dreams so mighty deeper than the prettiness of her eyes or the luminosity of her skin. This is one of Kim Novak’s early titanic roles and one she fills out with lush and deep emotion.
The lives of all of these women of Nickerson Kansas are changed one Labor Day when Hal comes steaming into town. William Holden gives a raw and wounded portrayal to Hal, a man at the edge of his youth and on the verge of becoming a lost man. He lives as he always has, on the fading glow of his golden boy charm and his muscular magnetism. Holden was 35 when he made Picnic, a staunch golden boy at the edge of his youth. He was perfect for the fragment. Some reviewers say he was too stale to play Hal, but I disagree. Without being thirty-five in actual life as well as in the chronicle Rosemary’s “Crummy Apollo” speech would not be so effective or devastating. Hal is a man who never bothered to grow up, a man who never let anyone accept too cessation for horror they might witness through is bravado and spy his fears of feeling something, anything before it’s too behind.
Holden also brings a sexual heat to the film that is eons beyond the time it was filmed. He is presented almost like a slab of meat. He struts around in a pre-Stonewall dream of sexy hotness. Not only the girls in town gaze him but a few boys too. (There are several layers to Sever Adams paperboy if one bothers to perceive.) When finally Holden sparks with Novak they blow the lid off of the uptight code hotfoot studio-strangled world of Hollywood in the Fifties.
The film is photographed magnificently in lush color and cinemascope by illustrious cinematographer James Wong Howe. The noted regain by George Durning is classic not only for the celebrated reworking of the faded standard “Moonglow” but for his virtuosity in dramatic power. This is a giant of a secure from the silver age of film music. The direction by Josh Logan is perfect in every contrivance and stands among the best of his work.
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