Thriller-Seekers!

In this week’s episode, we’re thrill-seeking with a trio of vintage suspense classics!

Charles Laughton and Ella Raines make a very unlikely romantic couple! Claudette Colbert is an amnesiac with a gun! And George Sanders is stripped to the waist and ready for duelling!

Music comes from Peggy Lee and Kitty Kallen!

There’s a brain-teaser for you, a dive into the Question Pot, and even a brand new raft of thank-yous!

Radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre!

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Pre-Code Paramours

In this week’s show, catch up on the many ways in which Sookie is loving quarantine!

There’s news of the new Secret History Of Hollywood series!

Hear about the incredible line-up of The Attaboy Clarence Film Festival!

There’s music from Fred Astaire and Marlene Dietrich!

Special guest, Brook Darnell drops in for a conversation with Adam as they pick their Top Five Pre-Code movies!

Reviews of TWO Pre-Code classics!

Radio entertainment this week stars the King Of Pre-Code himself, Mr Warren William!

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Dinner Pests

In this week’s show, there’s some exciting news!

Keep your spirits up with music from Dean Martin and Harry Belafonte!

Scottish Deborah Kerr becomes Irish-Scottish in a comic-thriller from the minds who gave you The Lady Vanishes and Green For Danger!

And grumpy Monty Woolley comes for a very extended dinner party in a small town!

Radio entertainment comes from the Lux Radio Theatre!

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Monicas And Mannequins

In this week’s show…

Gorgeous music from Bing Crosby and Kay Kyser!

Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy glam it up in a fairytale of New York!

Kay Francis and Warren William find a very unorthodox pathway to parenthood…

And much more, including an interesting announcement…

Radio entertainment comes from the Screen Guild Theatre, and features an array of stars!

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Mint Spies

In this week’s show, we’ll escape the troubled world around us and journey back to a time of heroes!

We’ve got music from Peggy Lee and Perry Como!

James Cagney is a master spy and action man in ‘13 Rue Madeleine’!

And J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI are clearing house! In fact, they’re clearing ‘The House On 92nd Street’!

Radio entertainment comes courtesy of Stars On The Air and Humphrey Bogart!

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Top That!

Happy 2020! The show returns with Jessie Matthews, Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper and this week’s special guest star, Roland Young!

There’s a Brighton Strangler competition for you to enter!

There’s a delightful radio comedy featuring everyone’s favourite haunted banker, Topper!

There’s a visit to the Question Pot!

Plus reviews of 1957’s ‘Love In The Afternoon’ and 1933’s ‘Pleasure Cruise’

All aboard, folks…

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Chase Away Them Blues

It’s been a battle against the flu, but the show finally returns, along with…

…the most DEPRESSING ad for tyres ever!

…the Mistletoe Kiss Polka!

…the wonderful Brook Darnell and her festive movie recommendations!

…a visit to the Lux Radio Theatre!

…PLUS three movies, 1940’s Christmas In July, 1935’s Rendezvous, and 1942’s Kid-Glove Killer!

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The Wizard Himself

This week’s show is dedicated to the Wizard himself, one of the Golden Age’s greatest character actors, Mr Frank Morgan!

We’ll be conjuring up reviews of two of his lesser-seen yet equally as charming film appearances, 1935’s The Perfect Gentleman and 1934’s The Affairs Of Cellini.

There’s a dive into the Question Pot, a chance to get a Christmas Card, and the latest in audio torture devices, courtesy of a famous breakfast cereal…

Radio entertainment comes this week from our special guest!

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Pools Of Darkness

In this week’s noir-themed edition of Attaboy Clarence, I’ll be telling you about a trio of shadow-soaked dramas to spice up your Noirvember viewing…

Victor Mature goes head-to-head with Laird Cregar in 1941’s ‘I Wake Up Screaming’

Robert Cummings is on the run from the law and from vicious gangsters in 1946’s ‘The Chase’

Kirk Douglas sinks lower than most men in 1951’s ‘Ace In The Hole’

Radio entertainment comes from the mighty quills of both Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, as we join Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe for two mysterious outings.

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Oh Johnny, Heavens Above!

In this week’s show…

Who would be the best Golden Age SUPERHEROES?

How did Adam become a classic movie LOVER?

How did Sookie become a REALITY TV star?

There’s MUSIC from Eddie Cantor and The Andrews Sisters, PLUS…

Reviews of THREE movies featuring Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, William Powell, Jack Carson and The Great Profile himself, John Barrymore!

Radio entertainment comes this week from The Sealtest Show, and it’s a real treat…

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Killer B's!

In this week’s show, we’re diving into the second tier of Hollywood for three awfully-brilliant, brilliantly-awful B-movie shockers!

We’ll be watching a killer man-cat, a Hitler impostor/assassin, and a jungle bride who can’t make up her jungle mind!

We’re also bobbing for questions in the Question Pot, debating the wisdom of Tootsie Roll Pops, and trying to survive a sneak attack from a very dangerous hat!

So jump on in to this week’s Attaboy Clarence!

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Lighter Than Air

Take my hand and waltz with me through a very special episode dedicated to the world’s greatest musical-dance-comedy team, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire!

I’ll be reviewing three of their movies, as well as presenting a gallery of clips, some of the finest music to have ever featured in a Fred and Ginger movie, a double helping of radio appearances by the duo, AND my personal Top 5 Fred & Ginger Supporting Players!

All this and lots more in this bumper-sized, lighter-than-air edition of Attaboy Clarence!

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Sunshine And Psychopaths

In this week’s show…

…who knew cigarettes could be so refreshing?

…advice on how to make yourself irresistible to the opposite sex?

…sublime music from Jo Stafford and Tommy Dorsey!

And reviews of two movies! One’s a battle of the sexes set around rival cab firms and the other is a tense noir-thriller about a cold-blooded killer on the rampage!

Radio entertainment comes from the Theatre Guild On The Air.

So welcome to Attaboy Clarence, welcome to summer, and welcome to the new episode!

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Is There A Doctor In The House?

This time it’s a deep dive into one of the greatest film series’ from the Golden Age!

Yes, the Dr Kildare series from MGM provided audiences then and now with a collection of the best stars, the best scripts, and the best stories, all from the hand of Kildare’s original author, Max Brand.

But why exactly did it work so well? And why did it come to a sudden and abrupt end? Find out inside…

There’s music from The Andrews Sisters, alcohol advice from a man who considers himself VERY harassed, and a radio entertainment double bill!

Come on in…

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The Hundredth Episode!

It’s a very special CENTENARY EDITION of Attaboy Clarence!

What a thrill it’s been to make one hundred of these shows, so let’s celebrate in the only way I know how, namely to tell you about some amazing movies, to present a wonderful piece of old-time radio, to snap our fingers to some classic music, and…

…TIME TRAVEL back with me to some of the highs and lows, including my best impression of a 1970’s radio DJ, and the review that caused me to almost collapse…

…endure… I mean enjoy a CANTERBURY RETROSPECTIVE!

… come along for the moment that I met Brook Darnell LIVE IN PERSON!

…hear the Top 5 ads that kicked the advertising obsession off, PLUS we’ll dust off an old friend in order to make it through a lulu of a bra advert!

…hear the song that HUMPHREY’s covering these days!

…SOOKIE’s on hand with her own tribute…

…and for the first time, a review of a movie that isn’t an actual review…

It’s all here in this very special HUNDREDTH EDITION OF ATTABOY CLARENCE! Can you believe we made it?

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Poison Ivy

It’s Episode 99… goodness me…

Well, having clambered across ninety-eight episodes of the podcast to get here, let’s see what’s inside…

There are some CANTERBURYS to dish out!

You have an all-new EXCELLENCY ear worm!

There’s music from SIR LANCELOT, and THE INKSPOTS!

The QUESTION POT throws up some brand new queries!

Plus two movie reviews! One’s a college comedy starring the fabulous Susan Peters, Herbert Marshall and Mary Astor. The other is a wickedly black thriller set at the turn of the century…

Radio entertainment comes from Radio’s Outstanding Theatre Of Thrills…

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Romancing The Joan

In this week’s show…

There was a meet-up in London, and people came!

Imagine, if you will, that you are a struggling musician… And imagine if you will, the tune you’d write to make you immortal…

I have podcast recommendations for you!

We’re diving into the Question Pot!

I have the funkiest song in HISTORY! Plus a gorgeous bop from Jo Stafford!

And today’s reviews are all dedicated to the eternal Joan Fontaine. Three movies featuring Saint Joan, but are they all worth catching? Hear what I think of 1938’s Maid’s Night Out, 1944’s Frenchman’s Creek, and 1941’s Suspicion!

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Credits

Episode 97: The Light Fantastical

In this week’s episode…

Sookie drops in to tell us about her week!

The Question Pot is open for business!

There’s music from Doris Day and The Andrews Sisters!

AND we’ll be taking a look at two supernatural films that aren’t out to scare you (although you may find yourself eeried out…), 1945’s The Enchanted Cottage and 1948’s Portrait Of Jennie.

Radio entertainment is from the Lux Radio Theatre

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Credits

Episode 96: Black Bette

In this week’s episode…

We’re touring the world with the help of a very special guide book!

There’s a whole bunch of thank-yous!

There’s a very TUMS remedy to consider!

And then we’ve got a dive into some unconventional noir…

The first is a Jules Dassin classic set in and around the endlessly winding alleyways of London’s Soho, and the second is a date with Bette Davis in sweaty Singapore for a very moral dilemma…

Plus music from Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald!

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Episode 95: I Wouldn't Say That

Welcome back to a new season of Attaboy Clarence, edging ever closer to the 100th episode…

In this week’s show…

Sookie has made a chart!

Jim has got B.O!

Bing Crosby has some advice!

The Merry Macs have got it in for my spellchecker!

There’s a real over use of exclamation marks!!

And then… there’s a trio (A TRIO) of radio adventures with one of Adam’s favourite old-time characters, followed by reviews of all four films that span off from his series!

It’s a bumper edition, so leave your cares outside and let’s start the new year off right with Episode 95 of Attaboy Clarence…

…!

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