Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night At The Movies

Episode 54: George Stevens Jr.

Steve speaks with legendary producer, director, writer, documentarian, playwright and founder of the American Film Institute, George Stevens Jr., who shares details about his dad's directing career and World War II service, "The Diary of Anne Frank," the Hollywood blacklist period, the documentary "George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey" and the beginnings of the AFI.  
 
 
 

Episode 53 Wayne Kramer

Steve speaks with director Wayne Kramer, whose 2003 drama, The Cooler, starring Wiliam H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, Paul Sorvino, and Maria Bello, is one of the best Las Vegas films ever.

Episode 52: Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns

Steve is joined for an eclectic evening by pop culture historians Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns, authors of the book "The Show Won't Go One: The Most Shocking, Bizarre and Historical Deaths of Performers Onstage." In addition to discussing the book and its upcoming sequel "Hollywood Endings," they go deep on Jerry Lewis's "The Errand Boy" and the life and career of actor Lawrence Tierney, the subject of Kearn's new book, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real Life Tough Guy."  
 
 
 
 
 

Episode 51 Derek Sculthorpe

Steve speaks with British film historian and author  Derek Schulthorpe about his books on such iconic character actors as Edmond  O’Brien, Van Heflin, Sidney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Brian Donlevy and Ruth Roman.

Episode 50: Gary Gerani

Steve speaks with author, screenwriter, Blu-ray commentator and trading card expert Gary Gerani, as they discuss his career, his cult classic Pumpkinhead, and the 1957 courtroom classic 12 Angry Men.  

Episode 49: Rory Aylward and Romano Orzari

Steve joins fellow producer Rory Aylward and actor Romano Orzari to dive into the behind the scenes details of "Silent Night," the true World War II drama they produced for the Hallmark Channel twenty years ago.  

Episode 48: Eddie Muller

Steve chats with Eddie Muller, the Czar of Noir from Turner Classic Movies' Noir Alley, focusing on two classics, "The Killers" (1946), and "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950).  

Episode 47: Stan Rosenfield

Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Stalag 17's, production (it was released 69 years ago in 1953), Steve does a deep dive on this classic Billy Wilder dramedy with media specialist Stan Rosenfield. 

Episode 46: Peter Hyams

Steve does a deep dive into 1978's Capricorn One with its director Peter Hyams.

Episode 45: Tommy Cook

Steve speaks with veteran radio, television and film actor Tommy Cook whose career stretches from The Adventures of Red Ryder serial from Republic Pictures (he was the Little Beaver) to Tarzan and the Leopard Woman opposite Johnny Weissmuller to films with Victor Mature, Audie Murphy, Richard Widmark, Tyrone Power, Jimmy Stewart and Van Heflin. He also wrote and produced Rollercoaster (1977).