“He’s a nice, quiet, peace-loving man come home to Ireland to forget his troubles.”

John Wayne gives Victor McLaglen a lathering in the epic climax of John Ford’s “The Quiet Man,” and composer Victor Young’s palette is all green. Join me for this alternately romantic and boisterous, folk-inflected score, alongside music for Ford’s “The Informer,” a very different film, a black-and-white study of guilt and paranoia, that earned Ford, McLaglen, and composer Max Steiner Academy Awards. (Ford was honored with his fourth Academy Award for “The Quiet Man.”)

We’ll also feature two films with music by John Williams: an adaptation of Frank McCourt’s autobiographical book, “Angela’s Ashes,” and Ron Howard’s big screen historical fiction, inspired by his ancestors’ journey to America, “Far and Away.” The latter soundtrack features the talents of The Chieftains.

We land a few for St. Patrick’s Day this week on “Picture Perfect,” this Friday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.