Hope everyone is well. Been out of town for a few, but wanted to drop a message to the community. In this regard, I believe this to be the first posting that I have initiated.
Just wondering about the availability of the aforementioned: George Dunning's score for "Picnic" 1955 w William Holden, Rosalind Russel, and Kim Novak.
Saw the movie Saturday on TCM. Very nice 1950s movie, but what a score too!!!
Score is available on CD and quite awesome! Movie is great, albeit William Holden being a tad too long in the tooth to play Hal. There's a couple of later Tv versions, one with Gregory harrison as Hal, and one with Josh Brolin...
Hope everyone is well. Been out of town for a few, but wanted to drop a message to the community. In this regard, I believe this to be the first posting that I have initiated.
Just wondering about the availability of the aforementioned: George Dunning's score for "Picnic" 1955 w William Holden, Rosalind Russel, and Kim Novak.
Saw the movie Saturday on TCM. Very nice 1950s movie, but what a score too!!!
Well.....the CD version of the score which was originally on a Decca stereo LP in the fifties has been out in the marketplace for quite some years now.
(I was late in posting this and joec has given link details, but I think I may have seen this recently in the Collector's Choice catalog as well.)
The most famous music from the film was not written by Duning, but was the song "Moonglow," with music and lyrics by Will Hudson, Eddie De Lange and Irving Mills.
The most famous music from the film was not written by Duning, but was the song "Moonglow," with music and lyrics by Will Hudson, Eddie De Lange and Irving Mills.
that is a great poster image from PICNIC but it is the reissue poster with an older, short haired Kim Novak head superimposed over the original titian colored long style one from the film-- a favorite of mine.
that is a great poster image from PICNIC but it is the reissue poster with an older, short haired Kim Novak head superimposed over the original titian colored long style one from the film-- a favorite of mine.
You are correct. That is the 1961 reissue poster. Here's the original.
Back in town after 4 weeks. Ordered and rec'd this gem. Absolute treasure of the golden age.
2 reasons I missed it when searching: 1. "Dunning" instead of "Duning" (this is a slip since Dunning #s are biz ids, and I'm an accountant); 2. I searched the film release year of 1955 - for whatever reason the score LP / CD was originally issued in 1958.
Defintely worth getting if you haven't already, but a bit pricey given that it's OOP for a number of years now.
I have a few scores by Mr. Duning and do like his work though wouldn't necessarily buy a score just because of his name. I will give this score another spin today ... (I've not seen the film)
The most famous music from the film was not written by Duning, but was the song "Moonglow," with music and lyrics by Will Hudson, Eddie De Lange and Irving Mills.
Actually, the most famous music is Moonglow combined with Duning's Theme from Picnic.
I understand what you mean, but just the same, pretty cool heli shot w the train pulling away.
I also notice that Down Beat gave it the "Underscore of the Year" award in 1955, which was the same year as "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" and "House of Bamboo," which are 2 of my favs for sure.
Nice music. The ending is embarrassingly dated, kind of like the ending of "It's a Wonderful Life."
I've not seen Picnic so have no idea how it ends but to suggest that the ending of It's A Wonderful Life is embarrassingly dated makes me smile/annoys me in equal measures ...
Do you mean to imply that when Frank Capra directed the film - some 65 years ago - he should have taken into account how an audience of the 21st Century would view his work? Dated, yes ... just like anything from a generation or more ago ... but to criticise something for ageing? Perhaps I misunderstood what you intended to imply.
Twilight Time has announced a Blu-ray of "Picnic" with an isolated score track. No word as to whether the score track will be in stereo or mono, but the film itself is stated to be in "5.1 DTS-HD MA."
It's a great score--along with The Devil at Four O'Clock, my two favorite feature works by Duning--indeed a very underrated composer (something even John Williams has said).
Twilight Time has announced a Blu-ray of "Picnic" with an isolated score track. No word as to whether the score track will be in stereo or mono, but the film itself is stated to be in "5.1 DTS-HD MA."
It's a long time since I saw this picture. I remember being blown away by Kim Novak when I saw this on TV in the mid-60's. Does anyone know how the score in the film itself compares with the music on the LP/CD? I'm pretty sure that the full-blown version of the love theme was recorded specially for the LP, but is there much in the film that wasn't on the record?
