Picnic Moonglow on an open thread

14

[the_ad id=”87125″]

A little something different tonight for our Friday night open thread.

Artie Shaw’s “Moonglow” was my original choice for this evening’s chill session, but I came across the innocent but sensuous Kim Novak slowly dancing (though more like seducing) a handsome, seen-it-all drifter (William Holden) to “Moonglow” on a hot liquid night in small Kansas town. And I had to share it. The film is Picnic, a 1955 American Technicolor rom-dram adapted for the screen from William Inge’s 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

Story continues below advertisement

Hot stuff.

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding. Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.

Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.

Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.

Follow Pamela Geller on
Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.

Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.

Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.

If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.

0 0 votes
Article Rating
14 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago

Picnic is at the top of all time movie classics. Great film.

Mark Espinola
Mark Espinola
6 years ago

A fine selection with one of the greatest bands from from the swing era. Bill Holden made some very fine pictures.
Check out my Film Noir sub-page located on my Google+ page.
Keep up the fine research & news reporting.

RetiredNavyphotog
RetiredNavyphotog
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Espinola

Holden was at his best in “Sunset Boulevard.”

Steve
Steve
6 years ago

Here’s one in the same artery – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFshWpwgE3M

tony curti
tony curti
6 years ago
Reply to  Steve

Or mebbe, mebbe a green gabardine witha cranberry accoutrement enemble and some high voltage checkerboard slacks………..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELo-AmUKiU

Steve
Steve
6 years ago
Reply to  tony curti

Waits is the face of the second chance hero coming up off the mat to beat the count to connect with a truth maker for a knockout at the end of the 15th.

tony curti
tony curti
6 years ago
Reply to  Steve

A true icon. Incredible originality and range; I like a number of “rock” performers (though my fav still is jazz) but he is at the top of the list, mainly because I find him to be so much more. He truly broke the mold. “….And the winner and new Champeen (sic) is…”

Percy Kittens Reloaded
Percy Kittens Reloaded
6 years ago

My daughter dancing. HaHaHa

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nk6r6r6kypo

Covadonga
Covadonga
6 years ago

Naam Shabana!

Why would a patriotic Indian girl who is Muslim join an elite undercover force to serve her country by hunting down the elusive Islamic terrorists who so cruelly strike at India from their bases in the mosques, madrassas, and government offices buildings of Pakistan?

Find out Friday by watching the premiere of Naam Shabana (The Name is Shabana), a major motion picture directed by Shivam Nair.

A prequel to the 2015 Mission Impossible-style hit action thriller Baby, Naam Shabana tells the story of Shabana Khan joining team Baby. The delicious Tapsee Pannu delivered a scene-stealing performance in this role in her brief appearance in Baby, so we are eagerly awaiting Friday night to find out what she can do when cast as the lead.

Like the earlier film, Naam Shabana is written by Neeraj Pandey. Since he is virtually the only screenwriter in contemporary culture with the courage to deliver a major work of fiction in which the bad guys are the actual bad guys (e.g. Islamic terrorists, with an imam as the mastermind,) that is quite a recommendation.

Naam Shabana (2017)

directed by Shivam Nair

starring Tapsee Pannu, Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Danny Dengzongpa, and Anupam Kher

country: India

debuts: Friday, March 31st

length: 129 min

language: Hindi. Call ahead to your theatre to confirm that they have a copy with English subtitles, if you need them.

burst3 burst3
burst3 burst3
6 years ago

BY FAR, this scene amounts to one of the most sensuous in all-time movies. and which will be hardly surpassed.

The characters do not pronounce a single word. However, their facial expressions, the look in their eyes, the dancing paces and the overall body language says it all.

Tatiana Covington
Tatiana Covington
6 years ago

Picnic Moonglow on an open thread… Chestnuts roasting on an open fire!

tony curti
tony curti
6 years ago

IT’s still the only music that matters……………great clip & thanks.

tony curti
tony curti
6 years ago

So if I watched it twice is that “perversion”??

tony curti
tony curti
6 years ago

For some reason when I re-watched that clip mind wandered to Lullabye of Birdland, so I went to youtube to look for Shearing, and also found an unexpected surprise. Have a look and listen…never in a million years did I expect to find Amy Winehouse here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYum8RoO1Y. Other standards follow…

Sponsored
Geller Report
Thanks for sharing!