Classic Movie Ramblings

Tales of Hoffmann is the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger film of Jacques Offenbach's 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann , which was bas...

Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish was released in 1983. Audiences stayed away in droves. In the 80s Coppola was reinventing himself as the...

Urban Cowboy , released in 1980, is a movie in which a large part of the action takes place in a honky tonk. Not just a honky tonk, but the ...

The Only Game in Town is a melodrama with some romantic comedy touches released by 20th Century Fox in 1970. It stars Elizabeth Taylor and ...

Ladies of the Big House is a 1931 Paramount pre-code crime/romance melodrama. Kathleen (Sylvia Sidney) is a sweet girl who works in a flowe...

Family Plot , released in 1976, was Alfred Hitchcock’s final movie. This is definitely Hitchcock Lite, but that does not mean it’s a lesser ...

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s La Vérité ( The Truth ) was released in 1960. For many people this is the movie that established Brigitte Bardot as...