Classic Movie Ramblings

Movies from the silent era up to the 1960s

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

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Tales of Hoffmann is the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger film of Jacques Offenbach's 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann , which was bas...
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Friday, June 12, 2026

Rumble Fish (1983)

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Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish was released in 1983. Audiences stayed away in droves. In the 80s Coppola was reinventing himself as the...
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Sunday, June 7, 2026

Urban Cowboy (1980)

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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 ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

The Only Game in Town (1970)

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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 ...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Ladies of the Big House (1931)

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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...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Family Plot (1976)

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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 ...
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

La Vérité (1960)

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