The best Alfred Drake’s movies

Alfred Drake

Alfred Drake

07/10/1914- 25/07/1992
Today we present the best Alfred Drake’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Alfred Drake’s movies.
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Trading Places

Trading Places
7.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/06/1983
  • Character: President of Exchange
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Night of 100 Stars

Night of 100 Stars
7.1/10
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
7.2/10
  • Genre: AnimationFamily
  • Release: 17/12/1985
  • Character: The Great Ak (voice)
The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus. When Claus grew up, the Great Ak showed him the evil and hardship in the world and Claus decides to live there and relieve some of the suffering. He decides to make toys for orphans, but King Awgwa, the ruler of the valley where Claus lives doesn't want the children to be happy, and there is a great battle among Immortals.

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
7.7/10
  • Release: 23/09/1964
  • Character: Claudius
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.8/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 07/08/2005
  • Character: Fred Graham / Petruchio (segment "Kiss Me, Kate")
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.

Your Money Or Your Wife

Your Money Or Your Wife
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1972
TV script about a kidnapping inspires real-life plot.

Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate
8.1/10
Abridged version of the classic Cole Porter musical as broadcast live on the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on NBC

Tars and Spars

Tars and Spars
6.1/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 10/01/1946
  • Character: Howard Young
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.

Strange Victory

Strange Victory
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 25/09/1948
  • Character: Narrator
Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Folowing "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.

The Yeomen of the Guard

The Yeomen of the Guard
  • Release: 10/04/1957
  • Character: Jack Point
A teleplay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's most serious opera presented on Hallmark Hall of Fame.

The Adventures of Marco Polo

The Adventures of Marco Polo
8/10
Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels to the East and the court of Kublai Khan who makes him an emissary and sends him on diplomatic missions throughout his empire. Over many years, Polo learns new cultures and languages, but he is haunted by the face of a mysterious woman whom he had met before leaving Venice and encounters her face in every woman he sees. Eventually returning to Venice to share his exotic and esoteric knowledge, Marco Polo once again finds the woman of his dreams. The Adventures of Marco Polo was an original, live television musical which was broadcast on NBC on April 14, 1956.

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