Picnic

Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is finally cast off. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.

Cast

Raymond S. Harrington

as The Father (uncredited)

Isabel Harrington

as The Mother (uncredited)

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