Movies with Charles Drake
Movies found: 10, viewing from 1 to 10
To Hell and Back
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Starring: David Janssen, Denver Pyle, Charles Drake, Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer
Directors: Jesse Hibbs
Country: USA
Year: 1955
Biopic of the wartime exploits of Audie Murphy (played by himself), the most decorated US soldier in World War II. Starting with his boyhood in Texas, where he became the head of his family at a young age, the story follows his enrollment in Army where he was assigned to the 3rd Division. He fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy before landing in southern France and eventually fighting in Germany. A Medal of Honor recipient, he also received battle honors from the French and Belgian government.
Conflict
Genres: Thriller, Film-Noir
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Charles Drake, Rose Hobart, Alexis Smith, Grant Mitchell, Sydney Greenstreet, Patrick O'Moore
Directors: Curtis Bernhardt
Country: USA
Year: 1945
Richard Mason is slightly injured in a car accident but pretends greater hurt so that he cannot accompany his wife Kathryn on a trip to the mountains. He does, however, kill her on a lonely mountain road. Or did he? He smells her perfume, finds her jewelry, sees an envelope addressed with her handwriting. He must go back to the scene of the crime to find ... what?
Tammy Tell Me True
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Beulah Bondi, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Hayden Rorke, Virginia Grey, Cecil Kellaway, Don Dorrell
Directors: Harry Keller
Country: USA
Year: 1961
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This film introduces both a new theme song, "Tammy Tell Me True", and the character of Mrs. Annie Call, played by veteran Beulah Bondi. Mrs. Call ultimately moves in with Tammy at the Ellen B. and would be the catalyst for the events in the following film, "Tammy and The Doctor".
Harvey
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Starring: James Stewart, Charles Drake, Jesse White, Cecil Kellaway, Wallace Ford, Victoria Horne, Nana Bryant
Directors: Henry Koster
Country: USA
Year: 1950
The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Winchester '73
Genres: Western
Starring: Jay C. Flippen, James Stewart, John Alexander, John McIntire, Charles Drake, Steve Brodie, Rock Hudson
Directors: Anthony Mann
Country: USA
Year: 1950
In a marksmanship contest, Lin McAdam wins a prized Winchester rifle, which is immediately stolen by the runner-up, Dutch Henry Brown. This "story of a rifle" then follows McAdams' pursuit, and the rifle as it changes hands, until a final showdown and shoot-out on a rocky mountain precipice.
I Was a Shoplifter
Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Charles Drake, Charles McGraw, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis, Scott Brady, Mona Freeman, Robert Gist
Directors: Charles Lamont
Country: USA
Year: 1950
Police detective sergeant Jeff Andrews is working on a case involving a gang of shoplifters, and he allows himself to falsely arrested as a petty thief, in order to make contact with the gang. Meanwhile, Faye Burton, a petty shoplifter and the daughter of a prominent judge, is blackmailed by the gang into joining them on the promise that they will get back a confession signed when she was caught by a department store detective, who had her sign the document rather than calling the police. It takes Jeff and Faye a lot longer to figure out who is the 'brains' behind the shoplifting gang than it does the audience, and the audience has less infor...
Tobor the Great
Genres: Sci-Fi
Starring: Peter Brocco, Taylor Holmes, Charles Drake, William Schallert, Hal Baylor, Robert Shayne, Steven Geray
Directors: Lee Sholem
Country: USA
Year: 1954
As projected here, a thinly-disguised NASA, working with nuclear rockets, is ready for manned flights in the mid-fifties...but Dr. Ralph Harrison doesn't think so, and resigns in protest. Colleague Prof. Nordstrom promptly enlists his aid in developing an alternative robot Spaceman! Naturally, foreign spies are keenly interested... Uses documentary footage of early space research.
It Came from Outer Space
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Joe Sawyer, Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes
Directors: Jack Arnold
Country: USA
Year: 1953
John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher. John is not trusted by the people of the small town near where he lives, certainly not by Sheriff Matt Warren, who feels protective of Ellen, and perhaps something more. One night, John and Ellen see a meteor crash in the desert. John drags his friend, Pete, out of bed to take him over to the crash site in his helicopter. Once there, John climbs down into the crater. Unfortunately, he does so alone, as Pete and Ellen wait for him. John is the only one who sees the sp...
Valley of the Dolls
Genres: Romance, Drama, Music
Starring: Lee Grant, Martin Milner, Charles Drake, Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate
Directors: Mark Robson
Country: USA
Year: 1967
Anne Welles, a bright, brash young New England college grad leaves her Peyton Place-ish small town and heads for Broadway, where she hopes to find an exciting job and sophisticated men. During her misadventures in Manhattan and, later, Hollywood, she shares experiences with two other young hopefuls: Jennifer North, a statuesque, Monroe-ish actress who wants to be accepted as a human being, but is regarded as a sex object by all the men she meets, and Neely O'Hara, a talented young actress who's accused of using devious means by a great older star (Helen Lawson) to reach the top, pulling an "All About Eve"-type deception in order to steal a go...
All That Heaven Allows
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Charles Drake, Jacqueline deWit, Hayden Rorke, Virginia Grey, Alex Gerry, Agnes Moorehead, Jane Wyman
Directors: Douglas Sirk
Country: USA
Year: 1955
Cary, a wealthy widow, falls in love with the much younger nurseryman, Ron Kirby. This provides gossip for the country club set, and her children are ashamed that she plans to remarry below her station. Ron is an independent man who can ignore the petty conventions of society, but can Cary also ignore them?