Saugatuck Red Barn Theatre Movie Night "Picnic"

Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Start Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Red Barn Theatre

Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events

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The Red Barn Theater’s film series continues June 19 with “Picnic,” the 1955 romance based on a play by William Inge and featuring theme music that became a hit on its own. William Holden stars as Hal Carter, the drifter who disrupts the smug life in a small community, and Kim Novak is Madge Owens, the town beauty.

The plot covers a 24-hour period: September 5, 1955. Hal is a former college football star, adrift and unemployed after army service and a failed Hollywood acting career. On Labor Day he arrives by freight train in a Kansas town to visit a fraternity buddy, Alan Benson (Cliff Robertson), the son of a wealthy grain elevator owner. Hal meets Madge, who is dating his friend.

Madge’s mother (Betty Field) hopes that she will marry Alan, whose father thinks Madge is beneath his son. Hal gets along wonderfully with almost everyone, and Alan is very happy to see "same old Hal," whom he takes to the family's sprawling grain elevator operations. He promises Hal a steady job as a "wheat scooper" (though Hal is disappointed he is not made an executive) and invites Hal to the town's Labor Day picnic. Hal is wary about going to the picnic, but Alan nudges him into it, saying Hal's "date" for the picnic will be Madge's bookish younger sister Millie (Susan Strasberg), who is quickly drawn to Hal's cheerful outlook and charisma.

During the picnic, everyone is unmasked, and by the next morning the question is whether Hal and Madge will find each other.

Film begins at 7 pm. when you can join host John Hardy in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn from CNJ Popcorn Co. and $1 concessions. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net

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Red Barn Theatre
63RD & Blue Star Hwy.
Saugatuck Mi 49453

Location Phone: 269-857-5300