Steven Jay Rubin’s Saturday Night At The Movies

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).

Episode 44: Bud Moss

Steve speaks at length with retired talent agent, author and film packager Budd Burton Moss who relates stories of working with a constellation of actors in the 1950s and 1960s, including Rita Hayworth, his long time friendship with Sidney Poitier, his marriage to actress Ruth Roman (Strangers on a Train), her harrowing tale of survival on the sinking Andrea Doria luxury liner, and much more. A very rich interview. 

Episode 43: Guy Manos

Steve speaks with motion picture technology entrepreneur and ex-stuntman and champion sky diver Guy Manos of CineLogic, who explains how the insane costs of epic motion pictures can be cut dramatically using pre-visualization technology aka Pre-Viz.  
 
 
 

Episode 42: Ron Shelton

Steve explores the classic “Bull Durham” with its writer-director Ron Shelton who documented his memories in the recent book “The Church of Baseball.”

Episode 41: James Chapman

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the release of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, Steve interviews author James Chapman, author of the fine forensic history of that film: "Dr. No: The First James Bond Film."

Episode 40: Veronica Cartwright

To celebrate Halloween, Steve interviews three-time Emmy-nominated actress Veronica Cartwright who screamed her way through such genre classics as The Birds, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Alien.