Charles Drake’s Typical Vibe
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Charles Drake has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Harvey.
Recurring themes

Anastasia
1956
Drama · Romance

Sayonara
1957
Drama · Romance

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956
Drama · Horror

The Fly
1958
Science Fiction · Horror

Magnificent Obsession
1954
Drama · Romance

White Nights
1957
Drama · Romance

Rancho Notorious
1952
Drama · Western

The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952
Adventure · Romance

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.
Dir. Henry Koster · With James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow

Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Dir. Douglas Sirk · With Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Dir. Archie Mayo · With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."
Dir. Mark Robson · With Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate
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