Saturday Cinema

“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.

To the beach!!!! A listener inspired hour of film music from movies set in, on, around or under the sea. ““Old Man and the Sea”, “The Sea Hawk”, “Hawaii”, “Hunt for Red October”, “South Pacific”.

Families. For better or worse, we live with them, dine with them, take summer vacations with them. A look at films about families from “Meet Me in St. Louis” and ”Sound of Music” to “Psycho” and “Star Wars”.

A brief overview of some of the great classic foreign films of the late 20th century. Spaghetti Westerns, Fellini, Legrand, Delerue and Hisaishi among others. Bill Morelock is guest host.

Some great films have been don on location in our beautiful country. We celebrate the Fourth by traveling coast to coast for “Music Man”, “Our Town”. “On the Town”, “Chicago”, Meet Me in St. Louis” and “1776”.