Picnic at Hanging Rock

Sep 2, 1975

1h 47m

★ 7.2

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.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Production Companies

McElroy & McElroy

Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd.

British Empire Films Australia

Australian Film Commission

South Australian Film Corporation

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Cast

Mrs. Appleyard

Rachel Roberts

Miss Greta McCraw

Vivean Gray

Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers

Helen Morse

Miss Dora Lumley

Kirsty Child

Tom

Tony Llewellyn-Jones

Minnie

Jacki Weaver

Miranda St. Clare

Anne-Louise Lambert

Irma Leopold

Karen Robson

Marion Quade

Jane Vallis

Edith Horton

Christine Schuler

Sara Waybourne

Margaret Nelson

Rosamund Swift

Ingrid Mason

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