Picnic at Hanging Rock poster
Director Peter Weir
Screenplay Cliff Green

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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

Release Date: 1975-09-02

Duration: 115 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Jacki Weaver
    Minnie
  • Rachel Roberts
    Mrs. Appleyard
  • Anne-Louise Lambert
    Miranda St. Clare
  • John Jarratt
    Albert Crundall
  • Dominic Guard
    Michael Fitzhubert
  • Garry McDonald
    Const. Jones
  • Olga Dickie
    Mrs. Fitzhubert
  • Kirsty Child
    Miss Dora Lumley
  • Wynn Roberts
    Sgt. Bumpher
  • Jane Vallis
    Marion Quade