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Attaboy Clarence Adam Roche

    • TV & Film
    • 4.9 • 121 Ratings

Join Adam for talk about classic movies and old-time radio shows, featuring a specially selected episode each week.

    The Phantom Vampire's Ghost Speaks!

    The Phantom Vampire's Ghost Speaks!

    In this edition of the show, allow me to introduce you to two of the weirdest, yet joyously entertaining B movies from one of Hollywood's pioneering studios on Poverty Row...
    First up, its bloodsuckers ahoy in 1945's The Vampire's Ghost starring one of the most unlikely leading men of the forties.
    Then we're heading into supernatural mind swap territory for 1945's The Phantom Speaks, in which one of the best character actors of the Golden Age turns to the spirit world to prove his theories, with disastrous results...
    Radio this time comes from Arch Oboler's masterful Lights Out, and one of the most meta horror stories ever broadcast on the air
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    • 41 min
    Hollywood Summer!

    Hollywood Summer!

    Unlock a summer of Old Hollywood storytelling, and a place to embrace when it comes to visiting a gentler time. Every series of the Secret History Of Hollywood unlocks when you sign up at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret
    But that's not all!
    The Secret History Of Hollywood will now be arriving with you far more frequently! Hear the chapters of these epic stories as they're produced, by becoming a Co-Producer at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret
    You'll get access to the complete Secret History of Hollywood catalogue, including THIN: The Thin Man Story, The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock, The Game Is Afoot, Bullets And Blood, and much more...
    Queens Of Cinema Series 1, plus instant access to Series 2, which has just begun with the two-part story of Ida Lupino!
    An ALL-NEW Classic Movie Library, designed from scratch - a whole new experience created to allow you to get the best out of Old Hollywood, including trailers, deeper information, and even curated playlists of films!
    Small Tales - short fiction with a sinister edge...
    Bonus review shows!
    Blueprints - a bitesize version of The Secret History Of Hollywood - extra chapters that help to further enhance the stories you've already heard!
    The Seventh Heaven Radio Hour - a bi-weekly music show in which I present the best in Golden Age music as well as the film scores that became legend
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    • 4 min
    The High Concept King

    The High Concept King

    This time, a brace of movies starring the King of The High Concept, the man who starred as The Bigamist for Ida Lupino, a man who solves his own murder in DOA, and a man who must do battle with a serial killer and his own masculinity in The Hitch Hiker - Mr Edmond O'Brien!
    I'll tell you all about O'Brien's appearances in Columbia's first ever 3D movie, a noir mystery based on a Ralph Bellamy sci-fir classic, AND the brief but intriguing tale of a writer whose literary creation seems to have sprung to life from the page...
    Radio entertainment comes this time courtesy of Escape and the mind of HG Wells...
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    • 43 min
    Swinging Into Action!

    Swinging Into Action!

    Welcome once more to Attaboy Clarence, in which I shine a light on some of the Golden Age treasures you really need to check out!
    In this edition, it's action all the way, as I turn your attention to a jungle adventure with some terrifying twists and turns, and a society treasure hunt masquerading as a race against time!
    I'll also take a dive into the Question Pot, there's a chance to guess the identity of a Golden Age legend once more, PLUS, let's see if Ray Milland can sell a record player or not...?
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    • 50 min
    Bring On The Empty Horses

    Bring On The Empty Horses

    Attaboy Clarence returns with a bumper edition of Old Hollywood treasures, including...
    ...music from Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland and George Sanders!
    ...reviews of two movies - a blissful 1938 romantic comedy that's as soothing as a bowl of ice cream, and an Anna May Wong thriller from 1939 that sees our intrepid hero as a doctor fighting to save the life of a crime kingpin!
    ... special guest, comedian and author Ian Moore joins the show to discuss the endless talents of everyone's best pal, David Niven!
    ...and two sterling radio appearances from Niven himself. First, his tender reading of one of history's great love letters. Secondly, Niven's in villain mode as he plays a fraudster out to net a fortune at the expense of an elderly lady for Suspense!
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    • 1 hr 46 min
    I Spy Crime

    I Spy Crime

    Welcome to the New Year, and to kick off the classic movie jamboree...
    ...two reviews, both of an intriguing nature - Myrna Loy is a very pre-code espionage queen in 1934's Stamboul Quest, while Jack Warner is the methodical detective on the trail of a grisly killer in 1962's Jigsaw...
    Bing's here to sing us into the new year, and it's a positive radio festival in the company of MGM and their nostalgia laden Good News show!
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    • 1 hr 25 min

Customer Reviews

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121 Ratings

121 Ratings

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Adam's meticulous research is magnificently presented as humorous, accessible and fascinating episodes about the huge variety of classic movies and radio still available to us. He not only gives a well rounded view of the historical context of the movies he discusses, he inspires his community of listeners to get involved too. A wonderful companion piece to his equally astonishing The Secret History of Hollywood, which is another beast entirely.

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