Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night At The Movies

This week Steve and public relations executive Stan Rosenfield celebrate a true classic, 1957's iconic courtroom drama, "12 Angry Men," which marked the feature directing debut of Sidney Lumet. 
 
 

This week we continue with our 1977 archival interview with the late, great James Bond screenwriter, Richard Maibaum. Having revealed his origins as a playwright and studio scriptwriter, as well as the birth of the Bond films in last week's episode, this time we get into a lengthy discussion of the making of the Bond movies, focusing on "From Russia with Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "The Spy Who Loved Me."  

Reaching back into his interview archives from 1977, Steve features Part One of an extensive interview with screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who, starting with "Dr. No," wrote thirteen James Bond movies.  

Steve is joined by 007 Magazine founder and editor Graham Rye as they debate the choices for the next cinema 007.  

Steve interviews author and former journalist Todd S. Purdum all about his concise and fascinating biography Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television.

Steve interviews author, journalist and film historian Bruce Handy who discusses his new book, Hollywood High, covering the history of teen movies, from Andy Hardy to The Hunger Games.

 
In 1950, as Hollywood was roiled by the investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Hollywood 10 were fresh in memory, a war broke out between legendary director Cecil B. DeMille and relative director newcomer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, whom DeMille had practically appointed as president of the Screen Directors Guild. The object of that war was DeMille's demand that SDG adopt a compulsory loyalty oath. Mankiewicz refused and subsequently DeMille organized a recall campaign that led to one of the most celebrated union hall meetings in history at the Beverly Hills Hotel.  This week, Steve is joined by former Showtime President of Programming Jerry Offsay, screenwriter/author Steve Molton and film historian Avie Hern as they talk about their film project, currently in development, which details this dramatic "Battle for Hollywood." 

Steve interviews producer, director, and actor Jack Lucarelli whose most recent film is the atmospheric horror western "Silent Thunder," and who explains the route he took to become an indie filmmaker in Southern California. 

This week Steve interviews author Bob Herzberg about his book Revolutionary Mexico on Film: A Critical History 1914-2014, covering such memorable titles as “The Wild Bunch,” “The Professionals,” “Juarez,” “Viva Zapata,” “Bandido,” Villa Rides” and more.  
 
 

Steve interviews writer/director John Herzfeld all about his cool 1996 crime drama "2 Days in the Valley," his award-winning HBO bio-pic "Don King," and other key credits.