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Moloch Cocktail!

It's a bumper edition this time as we present MUSIC from Gene Kelly, Harry Belafonte and Bing Crosby...

MOVIE REVIEWS of He Walked By Night, Starchers In The... STRANGERS In The Night, and the gloriously bad Jungle Captive, featuring an all-new "worst assistant to a scientific villain"!

All of this, PLUS, I talk to a genuine Hollywood megastar screenwriter about the ways in which Old Hollywood has influenced some of the most iconic characters of contemporary cinema.

Radio entertainment this time is truly the entertaining kind...

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The Best Of The Best - On The Air!

In this all-new edition of Attaboy Clarence, we're celebrating the return of summer with music from Frank Sinatra and more.

Reviews of two movies - a sports drama about a very famous bunch of trick-shot specialists, plus a turn-of-the-century musical romance about music piracy!

Special guest Lilly Ramin joins the show as we both discuss our top five favourite ever episodes of Golden Age radio entertainment.

And, let's hear one of the classics we discuss, courtesy of Academy Award Theater

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After Hours

In this edition of Attaboy Clarence...

What was ever wrong with waxy hair?

What's the movie that's caused your biggest swing in opinion?

Gorgeous music from Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole!

A duo of reviews - Clark Gable And Constance Bennett are crime-solvers in love from the wrong side of the tracks, and Film Noir takes a holiday...

Radio entertainment comes from the Lux Radio Theatre

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Wet Bandits

In this bumper edition of Attaboy Clarence, there's a hopping offering from Dean Martin...

We answer the burning question, "What does Vaseline have against brunettes?"

We're feeling a little of the "Lubitsch Touch" with an adventure in the company of a plucky plumber and a down-at-heel professor...

And then Lenore Aubert proves that she's just as good at playing Zorro as the men!

And we cap it all off with a radio double-bill! Charles Boyer and Dorothy McGuire light up the airwaves, and can John "The Brighton Strangler" Loder finally show us that he can act...?

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Appointment With Romance

Love is in the air this time, and what better way to make your heart beat faster than in the company of threeclassic romantic comedies.

First up, Carole Landis and John Hubbard are switching places, literally, in 1940 body-swap comedy Turnabout. James Cagney is romancing Gloria Stuart on the high seas in 1934's Here Comes The Navy. And Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan have the most unorthodox marriage you can imagine in 1941's Appointment For Love.

We've got music from Cagney himself, as well as dreamy tunes from Doris Day and Jo Stafford. We're playing another round of Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

And radio entertainment this week comes courtesy of Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy!

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The Dreamy Team

In this episode of Attaboy Clarence...

We're in the company of Britain's answer to Fred & Ginger - the duo who lifted the hearts of a nation, and who, to this day, hold a very impressive box-office record - Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding!

Hear all about the startling success of 1948's Spring In Park Lane, as well as the film itself - a lighter-than-air romance containing some truly dazzling moment. We'll also be skipping down the street to Piccadilly for Neagle and Wilding's first ride out together - 1946's Piccadilly Incident, a film that could not be more different...

We've got music from Benny Goodman and Larry Clinton, a befuddling edition of Who The Hell Is  That Hollywood Legend? - plus a return to a very familiar pot...

Radio entertainment comes this time from the Screen Guild Theatre

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Gentlemen Thieves!

In this episode of Attaboy Clarence...

Charles Aznavour guides us, musically, into this week's theme... thieves!

It's John vs Lionel in the Battle Of The Barrymores, but who will come out on top? Arsene Lupin the master thief, or the detective trailing him? The answer may surprise you, in 1932's Arsene Lupin, one of the racier crime thrillers of the pre-code era...

We're then in the company of that most refined of gentleman thieves - Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman from 1930, starring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis, and featuring a wonderful second act heist!

We'll take a trip back in time for another edition of Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

And there's radio entertainment from the Screen Director's Playhouse!

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The Attaboy Clarence New Year Special 2021

Hear the Top Ten Classic Movies that wowed me this year (including some I haven't yet told you about...)

Hear reviews of two classic movies with a New Year flavour - a murder mystery set at the stroke of midnight in The Night Club Lady (1932) and a trio of ghosts return to set a love affair in order just in time for New Year in Beyond Tomorrow (1940)...

We have New Year radio adventures with Holmes and Watson and Our Miss Brooks!

A special New Year edition of Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?

Some classic music to see in the New Year, courtesy of Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and The Maguire Sisters

PLUS... don't you just love classic radio advertisement music with a sinister twist?

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A Very Dark Trio

In this episode of Attaboy Clarence...

Film Festival news!

A trio of very dark tales featuring terrible dilemmas at their core…

First up, did the professor kill his pretty young student when she threatened to reveal their ‘PERSONAL AFFAIR (1953)’?

Just how deep does a sister’s love for her brother go, and what is the terrible secret behind the ‘DOUBLE DOOR (1934)’?

A detective falls foul of the most fatal of femmes, but with everything on the line, is there enough good in him to do the right thing in ‘NIGHT EDITOR (1946)’?

Radio entertainment comes straight from the Night Editor’s desk!

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The Halloween Spooktacular 2021

In this frightful, spooktacular Halloween Special, join Adam for a triple bill of reviews, as well as three ghoulish radio outings that’ll leave your blood chilled and your heart thrilled!

We’re taking a trip out with three movies including a vampire detective story, a fairytale murderer brought to life, and a mad professor hellbent on miniaturising the world!

In radio land, join Peter Lorre, who may or may not be possessed by a spirit, a warlock back from the dead and in search of fresh blood, and a startling found-footage prototype from radio’s outstanding theatre of thrills!

We’ve also got a trio of spooky musical treats from Kay Starr, Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway…

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Wanna Bette?

In this episode of Attaboy Clarence...

Film Festival news!

Why on earth have a barbershop quartet taken to shaving fruit?

Musical greatest from Glenn Miller and Louis Jordan!

And a trio of reviews, featuring the "King Of Pre-Code", a dual-performance from a Warner Queen, and William Powell with rabies!

Radio entertainment this time comes in a double-bill! We're taking care of a very special house-guest with Burns and Allen, and Bette Davis brings an intriguing premise to the air...

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Fireball!

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In this edition, we'll discuss the relative merits of the "watch pile" and why interrupting is always unwelcome!

The Question Pot is dusted off for a new bunch of enquiries...

Hear reviews of three stellar movies, 1938's Law Of The Underworld, 1943's London Blackout Murders and 1941 Barbara Stanwyck classic, Ball Of Fire!

Radio entertainment comes this week courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre

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Horrorama!

Hear the worst possible health and beauty guidance you can imagine, courtesy of Vaseline!

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There are reviews of two horrortastic classics, including a very handy hand of death, some atrocious accent work, and the secretary/astrologist/librarian career you'd never imagined could exist in 1946's The Beast With Five Fingers!

Then we're over to 1943 for the best Dracula sequel you've never heard of, Return of The Vampire, featuring Bela Lugosi as Armand Tesla (no relation to Elon Musk), the vampire with a tall chihuahua man for a personal assistant.

PLUS... there's a ghoulish, macabre slice of old time radio, so turn up the volume and turn down the lights....

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Warner Intrigue!

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In this week's Attaboy Clarence, a trio of Warner Brothers movies on an intrigue theme...

1946's The Verdict - a locked room mystery starring Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre

1947's That Hagen Girl - a timely tale of a gossiping town out to destroy a young girl's life, starring Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple and Lois Maxwell

And 1945's Danger Signal - the story of a psychopath who sends a family to war, starring Zachary Scott and Faye Emerson.

There's music courtesy of some radio jingles (no, really...), and a classic story brought to audio life by the Lux Radio Theatre!

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What's The Crime, Mr Wolfe?

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This week, we’re in Golden Age Of Detective Fiction country, as we look at the two Nero Wolfe movies, based upon Rex Stout’s imnimitable, beer-guzzling, orchid-loving detective and his loyal sidekick, Archie Goodwin!

We’ll also hear from a very interrupty rubber salesman, take a visit to see if we can guess Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend, and luxuriate in a radio detective double-bill…

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Hail Mary

In this week’s show…

There’s music from Bing Crosby, news about new podcasts, a special documentary, and a chance to grab yourself a copy of the fabulous noir publication, The Dark Pages!

Reviews are centred around two Pre-Code treats - one a Capra-esque light comedy about an ancient town founder suddenly finding himself muscled out by progress, and the other a tawdry tale of girl doing all she can to pull herself up out of the gutter.

Radio entertainment comes this week from the Lux Radio Theatre

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Sinister Warnings

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In this week’s show, there’s a special guest… well, kind of…

We have music from Billie Holiday and Sir Lancelot!

Reviews of two classic thrillers - Johnny Stool Pigeon from 1949, and Black Hand from 1950, both of which feature stars playing against type…

We’re even taking a dive into the Question Pot!

Radio entertainment comes courtesy of Suspense…

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Stardust Over The Homestead

In this week’s show…

Hoagy Carmichael provides a duo of sterling hits to keep you swooning…

There’s another chance for you to guess the identity of Hollywood star in Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?…

I’ll be telling you about two movies featuring stars who took some of the inimitable Hollywood stardust all the way home to Britain, in a romantic fairytale and a horror hit!

And there’s radio entertainment from Boris Karloff!

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