Picnic at Hanging Rock( 1975)

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On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock ... Some were never to return.

Overview

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

Top Billed Cast

Rachel Roberts
Mrs. Appleyard
Vivean Gray
Miss Greta McCraw
Helen Morse
Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers
Kirsty Child
Miss Dora Lumley
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Tom
Jacki Weaver
Minnie
Anne-Louise Lambert
Miranda St. Clare
Karen Robson
Irma Leopold
Jane Vallis
Marion Quade
Christine Schuler
Edith Horton
Margaret Nelson
Sara Waybourne
Ingrid Mason
Rosamund Swift
Jenny Lovell
Blanche Gifford
Janet Murray
Juliana
Wynn Roberts
Sgt. Bumpher
Peter Collingwood
Col. Fitzhubert
Olga Dickie
Mrs. Fitzhubert
Dominic Guard
Michael Fitzhubert
John Jarratt
Albert Crundall
Frank Gunnell
Mr. Whitehead
Vivienne Graves
Pupil
Angela Bencini
Pupil
Melinda Cardwell
Pupil
Annabel Powrie
Pupil
Amanda White
Pupil
Lindy O'Connell
Pupil
Verity Smith
Pupil
Deborah Mullins
Pupil
Sue Jamieson
Pupil
Bernadette Bencini
Pupil
Barbara Lloyd
Pupil
Kay Taylor
Mrs. Bumpher
Garry McDonald
Const. Jones
Martin Vaughan
Ben Hussey
John Fegan
Doc. McKenzie

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Mon Mar 08 2021

_**Several females suddenly go missing in southeast Australia in 1900**_ When the students & staff of a girl’s school outside Melbourne take an outing to Hanging Rock on Valentine’s Day in 1900, three girls and a teacher mysteriously go missing. What happened to them? Directed by Peter Weir and based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (1975) is an artsy psychological mystery that seems timeless. The style is akin to movies like “Days of Heaven” (1978), “The Secret Garden” (1993) and “The Virgin Suicides” (1999). If you like those movies you’ll appreciate this on...