Saturday Cinema

Kevin O’Connor guest hosts this hour of some of the best film musicals ever.

Film scores that are your faves! Ward Jacobsen guest hosts.

Movies sent in the summer season: "Summer and Smoke", "Summer of '42", "Mr. Hulot's Holiday", "Jaws", "Music Man" and more.

Celebrating celeb natal days. Born this month were: Christopher Reeve, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Michael Keaton, Deborah Kerr and more. Music from their films to celebrate.

“Wagon Train to the stars” is how Gene Roddenberry envisioned the early days of Star Trek. Over the next half century, it has taken on a life and space of it’s own in our culture. 55 years if Trek in 59 minutes isn’t easy, but we give it our best shot.

Whether or not you enjoyed returning to school after summer vacation, we were all in the same boat. Today, celebrate (or not) schools in cinema with “Tom Brown’s Schooldays”, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips”, “Harry Potter” and more.

Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck were huge stars for decades. They gave us great films like “Gaslight”, “Notorious”, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and they lit up the screen together in “Spellbound”. Films of Peck and Bergmann on today’s show.

A Saturday Cinema listener requested scores from Sergio Leone Westerns, the so-called "Spaghetti Westerns" of the 1960s. We tacked on some of Hollywood's finest, "The Cowboys", "Stagecoach", "Legends of the Fall", so saddle up. Time to ride!

They met in high school in NYC, and soon Jerome Moross and Bernard Herrmann became fast friends. They pursued the same careers, both worked with Aaron Copland early on at Tanglewood. We celebrate the 108th birthday of Jerome Moross and invited his lifelong pal along for the ride.

Our National Parks are gems in the national landscape. Many great films have been done in our around National Park Service Parks or in US Forest Service Forest lands. “How the West Was Won”, “Star Wars”, “Close Encounters” “Dances with Wolves” and more.