Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
“On St. Valentine’s Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock…Some were never to return.” Summary:
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.
Drama, Mystery
107 minutes
Language: enMcElroy & McElroy, Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd., British Empire Films Australia, Australian Film Commission, South Australian Film Corporation
Australia
Directed by: Peter Weir
Written by: Joan Lindsay, Cliff Green
Starring: 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)
Released: 1975-09-02