Tom Drake
Also Known As: Alfred Alderdice, Том Дрэйк, Alfred Sinclair Alderdice
Biography: Tom Drake was born on August 5, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Alfred Alderdice. He was an actor, known for Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Green Years (1946) and Raintree County (1957). He was married to Isabelle Dunn. He died on August 11, 1982 in Torrance, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: August 05, 1918
Deathday: August 11, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Overview: Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe
Overview: Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend, Dr. Forrest, Poe commits Lenore to the asylum run by Dr. Grimaldi. On a visit to the asylum, Poe and Forrest sense that something strange is going on, and decide to sneak back in after dark and investigate.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-29
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Deadly Inheritance
Overview: There are a number of inheritors to a fortune who are getting killed by a mysterious somebody whom we do not see. Each death is novel, but not terribly graphic. Who did it?
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Cyclops
Overview: A test pilot is missing and a search party is sent out in the jungles of Mexico; however, while searching they uncover a monster in the jungle who became this way due to a dose of radioactivity.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-28
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Warlock
Overview: A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire the services of Clay Blaisedell as de facto town marshal. He arrives along with his friend, Tom Morgan, and sets about restoring law and order on his own terms whilst also overseeing the establishment of a gambling house and saloon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-15
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Words and Music
Overview: Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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Courage of Lassie
Overview: Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-08
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Scene of the Crime
Overview: A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-28
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Raintree County
Overview: In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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The Green Hornet
Overview: After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-21
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The Great Rupert
Overview: Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Mrs. Parkington
Overview: In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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The Howards of Virginia
Overview: Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Two Girls and a Sailor
Overview: A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-14
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The Beginning or the End
Overview: The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
Genres: Drama Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-19
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Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Overview: A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-15
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Sudden Danger
Overview: Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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The Sandpiper
Overview: A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
Overview: Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-23
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This Man's Navy
Overview: During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet is in charge of an airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base. Trumpet orders an unauthorized and premature attack on a German submarine but the bomb misses and the submarine fires back, hitting the airship. Trumpet takes over the controls and sinks the submarine, The pilot faces a court-martial for disobeying orders but the older man takes the blame for his actions. Weaver transfers to the Ferry Command, and while on assignment in Burma, his aircraft crashes in Japanese territory. Trumpet rushes to the scene with a rescue team. Both are successfully brought out and are decorated for their heroism. Afterward, Weaver indicates that he will be returning to the lighter-than-air service in Lakehurst, to reunite with his "father".
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-04
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Johnny Reno
Overview: The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-09
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Northern Pursuit
Overview: Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-07
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Red Tomahawk
Overview: After Custer's defeat an army captain tries to warn a small town that the Sioux are coming. The inhabitants own two machine-guns but don't want to lend them to him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Green Years
Overview: An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor. However, the boy's harsh grandfather stands in his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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Betrayed Women
Overview: Love-starved gun molls (Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels) escape from a prison farm where matrons make their lives miserable.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-17
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Cass Timberlane
Overview: Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-06
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I'll Be Yours
Overview: A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-02
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FBI Girl
Overview: G-men grab a gangster and a governor thanks to a clerk in the fingerprints division.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-04
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Date with Disaster
Overview: A car salesman and suspected safecracker Miles saves his fiancee Sue from those who would kidnap her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Money, Women and Guns
Overview: Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
Genres: Mystery Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Hills of Home
Overview: William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that he is getting older and must ensure the glen will have a new local doctor ready.
Genres: Family Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-25
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Never Trust a Gambler
Overview: A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-13
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Sangaree
Overview: Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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City Beneath the Sea
Overview: A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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Maisie Goes to Reno
Overview: A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-15
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Tight as a Drum
Overview: A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-11
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Alias a Gentleman
Overview: Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-03
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Faithful in My Fashion
Overview: A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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Cop on the Beat
Overview: An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Main Street After Dark
Overview: A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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Warkill
Overview: A journalist (Tom Drake) watches a U.S. colonel (George Montgomery) and Filipino guerrillas smoke out Japanese soldiers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-30
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Disc Jockey
Overview: National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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The Bramble Bush
Overview: A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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House of the Black Death
Overview: Two brothers, both of whom are warlocks, use their powers and covens of witches to battle over the family fortune.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Mortal Storm
Overview: The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-20
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Our Town
Overview: Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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The White Cliffs of Dover
Overview: American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-11
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Overview: Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-16
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Twenty Years After
Overview: This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Primary Flight Training: Flight Sense
Overview: Two young pilot trainees arrive for primary flight training and meet their instructor, Navy pilot Lt. Taylor. Lt. Taylor talks to the men about the necessity of becoming practiced in the way of the aircraft in such a way as to enable them to rely on their senses much of their time in the air, as reliance on instruments can be confusing for beginning pilots. He explains that, at first, flying will be like walking or riding a bicycle were first learned -- by trial and error and following strict instructions. But with practice, eventually the pilot's senses will take over and much of the process of flying will rely more on his feel for the plane and less on rote following of instructions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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The Boy Who Stole the Elephant
Overview: A frontier huckster, Colonel Ryder, and a young orphan, Davey, operate a travelling tent show. They are loaned an elephant by an old friend, Molly, who is also a rival circus owner. Davey trains the elephant and the two soon become inseparable. When the Colonel loses the elephant in gambling, Davey steals the elephant and begins a 20-mile search for Molly, the rightful owner.
Genres: Family Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-20
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The Singing Nun
Overview: Belgian nun Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls, like Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann's uplifting singing style, he takes her to a talent contest. Sister Ann is signed to a record deal and everyone is listening to her lighthearted songs. She is unprepared for her newfound fame (like appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show) and unwanted side effects, including a wrongful attraction to an old friend.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-17
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Mayday at 40,000 Feet
Overview: The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-29
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A Matter of Wife... and Death
Overview: A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-03
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Crackle of Death
Overview: The first of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Firefall (about the ghost of an arsonist that tries to take over a renowned conductor's body as his doppelgänger) and The Energy Eater (about a Native American bear-spirit haunting a newly built hospital) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-28
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