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Classic Saturday – April 21, 2012

Posted on April 21st, 2012

One Saturday each month we’ll be adding a slew of Classic Movie Trailers to the site for your nostalgic enjoyment. From historical black & whites, to outrageous eighties, it’s a grab-bag of ‘gone but not forgotten’ previews.

Have a classic trailer request? Let us know in the comments!

Here are the latest additions:

American Gigolo
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician’s wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he’s being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.

Release Date: February 8, 1980
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, Bill Duke
Genre: Drama | Crime | Romance
Deliverance
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they’ll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Release Date: July 30, 1972
Director: John Boorman
Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Gone With the Wind
American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Release Date: January 17, 1940
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O’Neil, George Reeves, Fred Crane
Genre: Drama | Romance | War
The Graduate
Recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is trapped into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, who happens to be the wife of his father’s business partner and then finds himself falling in love with her daughter, Elaine.

Release Date: December 22, 1967
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
The Silence of the Lambs
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

Release Date: February 14, 1991
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Frankie Faison, Anthony Hopkins
Genre: Thriller
Tremors
Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

Release Date: January 19, 1990
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Young Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson, after years of living down the family reputation, inherits granddad’s castle and repeats the experiments.

Release Date: December 15, 1974
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr
Genre: Comedy



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