Picnic at Hanging Rock: Collectors Edition (1975)

Released 18-Aug-2004

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If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVD St. Valentine’s Day, 1900. On a beautiful summer’s day a party of Australian schoolgirls from an exclusive finishing school giddily prepare for an excursion to Hanging Rock, a magnificent natural monument drenched in a mysterious atmosphere.
Among the white-gloved pupils of Appleyard College are senior boarders Miranda, Marion, Irma and Edith.
The girls gain permission to explore the upper slopes of the rock. Edith takes a nap and wakes to discover that the other three girls have removed their shoes and stockings and have resumed their trek as if in a dream, disappearing into a passageway in the rock itself.
Mathematics mistress Miss McCraw goes to investigate, but neither she nor the three other girls are ever seen again. They have vanished without a trace.
Based on the classic novel by Joan Lindsay, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is both sublimely spooky and majestically beautiful.

Boasting visually hypnotic photography by Oscar winner Russell Boyd, a haunting score by Bruce Smeaton and the timeless ethereal beauty of Anne Louise Lambert as Miranda, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" helped revive the Australian film industry and established Director Peter Weir as a major International talent.

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Starring

Rachel Roberts
Vivean Gray
Helen Morse
Kirsty Child
Tony Llewellyn-Jones
Jacki Weaver
Frank Gunnell
Anne-Louise Lambert
Karen Robson
Jane Vallis
Christine Schuler
Margaret Nelson
Ingrid Mason

Directed by

Peter Weir

Music

Bruce Smeaton

Genre	Year	Running Time	Format	Region Coding	Dual Disc	Dual Layer
Drama	1975	104:00	576i (PAL)	1 2 3 4 5 6	Dual Disc	Dual Layer

Video

Widescreen 1.78:1, NOT 16x9 Enhanced

Audio

English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s)

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Extras

Main Menu Audio, Theatrical Trailer, Featurette-Making Of-A Dream Within A Dream, Featurette-A Recollection-Hanging Rock 1900, Featurette-Joan Lindsay Interview, Audio-Only Track-Short Recollections-Karen Robson (Irma), Gallery-Hanging Rock And Martindale Hall-Then And Now, Trailer-Australian Films, Gallery-With Excerpt Of The Novel Read By Helen Morse, Short Film-The Day Of Saint Valentine, With Commentary

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