The Podcasts For Classic Movie Lovers
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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In this week’s show…
… a TRIO of fabulous movies to tell you about!
1932’s ‘The Beast Of The City’, an ultra-violent Pre-Code prototype of the Scorsese movies to come!
1935’s ‘Whipsaw’ sees a cat-and-cat game of wits between jewel robber, Myrna Loy and lovestruck government agent, Spencer Tracy!
And common-sense reigns supreme, all the way to the Supreme Court in fact, in Columbia’s delightfully intelligent comic-drama, ‘The Talk Of The Town’ from 1942, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman.
Sookie drops in to talk about how she’s managing in the current situation, and radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre!
In this week’s show…
…the QUESTION POT makes a “musical” return…
…learn how you can avoid that pesky SNEEZE-INDUCING soap…
…there’s another Golden Age SUPERSTAR to identify in Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?…
…plus reviews of TWO suspense movies that’ll have those goosebumps standing to attention: Katharine Hepburn in ‘Undercurrent’, and Siobhan McKenna in ‘Daughter Of Darkness’…
…radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre!
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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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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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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!
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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This week…
…winter’s closing in, and if only there was some way of achieving a certain dream…
…the Question Pot features a singing dog, a trip to Ocono… Oconwo… to somewhere… plus a discussion on fish out of water…
…there’s music from Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters…
‘‘‘reviews of three movies, including a Vincent Price SHOCKer, a Bluebeard tale with a Hitchcock twist, and a love triangle with a pitch black centre…
Jump on in to your new weekly Attaboy Clarence podcast!
Radio entertainment comes this week from NBC Best Shows
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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?
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
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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Wooooooo! (That’s a ghost noise, by the way…)
It’s a spookfest this time round, with ghoulish reviews of three classic chillers, including a mad doctor with ice on the brain, a mad doctor with a murderer on his hands, and a mad doctor with a secret in the basement…
There’s eerie music from Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Mary Ann McCall!
Brook Darnell returns for an inside look at one of horror’s greatest icons!
There’s a dip into the Question Pot!
The winner of the Jamaica Inn competition is announced!
Sookie’s been getting into the Halloween spirit…
PLUS there’s a classic slice of Halloween radio…
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In this week’s episode…
MUSIC from Doris Day, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Dorsey!
Reviews of two movies! A lesser-seen Universal Horror movie starring the Queen Of Camp and The Master Of Lumbering! And a romantic comedy featuring a war between astronomy and astrology starring William Powell and Hedy Lamarr!
ALSO…
How do you advertise oil by talking about outdoor clothing?
Who has a name that feels like ice-cream for the soul?
What ranks as “10” on the Doggie Compliment Scale?
What does the newest member of the Canterbury Pantheon sound like?
How on earth do you enter the new competition to win a book full of classic movie star posters?
The answers are all inside the new episode of Attaboy Clarence, so come on in and find out...
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To listen to the latest episode of Excessively Diverted CLICK HERE
It's the Attaboy Clarence Christmas Special for 2017, featuring...
Gene Autry, Janet Leigh, Robert Mitchum, Greer Garson, Brook Darnell, Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson, a very old-time radio version of the nativity, the Christmas Pot, Sookie, Frank Sinatra, and of course, YOU the listeners!
Welcome back to Attaboy Clarence, now with a decided Calypso flavour...
Play another round of 'Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?'!
Fumble for answers in The Question Pot!
Thrill to FOUR reviews this time, featuring a very British murder in a very public place, a French waiter trying to save a girl from her psychopathic husband, James Stewart and the pitfalls of being lucky, and James Mason as a murderer who goes caravanning...
Music this week is from Sir Lancelot and Fats Pichon, while radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Screen Director's Playhouse, which features a very special guest star...
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It's the 70th, and therefore PLATINUM edition of 'Attaboy Clarence'!
To celebrate, we'll listen to a very confusing advertisement, plus test our strength with Cheerios!
PLUS another round of 'Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?'
The Question Pot throws up another handful of conundrums...
We'll also unveil the winner of the Val Lewton competition...
This week's movies all star that most dazzling of British actresses, Margaret Lockwood, and include a newlywed bride harbouring a dark secret, a nurse who just can't seem to stop being tried for murder, and a blind girl in peril...
Radio entertainment comes this week from the Lux Radio Theatre.
Attaboy Clarence is back!
In this episode, Thank Yous, Canterburys, Bulletins and more questions from the Question Pot!
PLUS...
Another game of 'Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?'!
Sookie muses on her Christmas!
Competition time!
Reviews of three movies featuring octopus villains, eternal youth and a con man with a heart of gold!
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This week, who on earth can fit eight great tomatoes into an itty-bitty can?
Apart from that, The Question Pot throws up a new assortment of queries...
Is it Clippercraft, or Clippercrap?
The Julio Iglesias-flavoured email song is back!
Sookie has a birthday wish!
We play 'Who The Hell Is That Hollywood Legend?' again...
PLUS, we're looking at three more movies, 'Our Vines Have Tender Grapes' (a film with a title you have to give twice, EVERY TIME!), 'Over The Garden Wall' (Romeo & Juliet meets 1930's Britain), and the quintessential screwball comedy classic 'Bringing Up Baby'.
Radio entertainment comes courtesy of the Lux Radio Theatre
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This week, there's a new game in town, as well as an all new (very overactive) catchphrase!
PLUS...
The reviews are over to you...
And hear about a trio of very curious movies in which you'll find a lovesick mermaid, a David-Lynchian parade of dogs, and a superhero with the worst super-power you've ever heard of!
It's all here, so dive on into Episode 66!
This week, we're celebrating one of the Golden Age's greatest directors, and Columbia's saviour, Mr Frank Capra, with a look at three of his finest films...
Also...
HEAR an ad that features a song that doesn't rhyme!
ROCK WITH LAUGHTER at America's "funniest" comedy duo (?)...
DISCOVER why the great financial crisis happened...
...and much more!
