Robert Preston
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1918-06-08
Geburtsort: Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA
Auch bekannt als: Robert Preston Meservey
The Last Frontier
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.12.07Popularität : 5.598
Semi-Tough
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become...
Veröffentlichung : 1977.11.18Popularität : 4.197
Junior Bonner
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood...
Veröffentlichung : 1972.08.02Popularität : 6.779
My Outlaw Brother
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.08.22Popularität : 2.708
The Last Starfighter
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it...
Veröffentlichung : 1984.07.13Popularität : 16.386
How the West Was Won
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...
Veröffentlichung : 1962.11.02Popularität : 17.893
Victor/Victoria
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Veröffentlichung : 1982.04.25Popularität : 10.146
S.O.B.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes...
Veröffentlichung : 1981.07.01Popularität : 8.93
The Macomber Affair
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Veröffentlichung : 1947.04.20Popularität : 4.116
The Music Man
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Veröffentlichung : 1962.06.19Popularität : 14.766
Mame
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick...
Veröffentlichung : 1974.03.07Popularität : 4.8
The Lady Gambles
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.05.20Popularität : 4.782
Blood on the Moon
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.11.11Popularität : 3.641
Beau Geste
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.07.24Popularität : 4.653
Cloudburst
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.07.01Popularität : 1.021
Whispering Smith
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.12.09Popularität : 3.309
The Sundowners
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
Veröffentlichung : 1950.02.02Popularität : 2.734
Wake Island
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.08.11Popularität : 3.205
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.05.05Popularität : 7.032
Reap the Wild Wind
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.03.26Popularität : 10.978
This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss,...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.04.24Popularität : 8.537
Rehearsal for Murder
A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Veröffentlichung : 1982.05.26Popularität : 3.755
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson
Veröffentlichung : 1980.03.17Popularität : 1.785
Child's Play
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is...
Veröffentlichung : 1972.12.12Popularität : 4.638
North West Mounted Police
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.10.22Popularität : 4.586
The Night of January 16th
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.11.28Popularität : 1.618
New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.10.31Popularität : 2.415
King of Alcatraz
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.09.30Popularität : 1.889
Tulsa
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.04.13Popularität : 4.19
Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.03.05Popularität : 4.82
All the Way Home
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure...
Veröffentlichung : 1963.10.17Popularität : 3.109
Island of Love
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's...
Veröffentlichung : 1963.06.12Popularität : 2.858
Best of the Badmen
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.08.09Popularität : 8.073
Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.08.29Popularität : 4.871
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His...
Veröffentlichung : 1960.09.28Popularität : 2.836
The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.04.11Popularität : 5.695
Typhoon
Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.05.16Popularität : 5.968
Parachute Battalion
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.09.12Popularität : 3.05
Outrage!
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man. Admitting his...
Veröffentlichung : 1986.01.01Popularität : 4.253
Big City
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.03.25Popularität : 3.001
Face to Face
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.11.01Popularität : 1.108
Disbarred
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.01.06Popularität : 1.631
Moon Over Burma
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
Veröffentlichung : 1940.07.26Popularität : 1.714
Pacific Blackout
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...
Veröffentlichung : 1941.12.31Popularität : 2.993
Disclosure
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people...
Veröffentlichung : 2020.06.19Popularität : 9.557
Illegal Traffic
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the...
Veröffentlichung : 1938.11.02Popularität : 2.044
Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...
Veröffentlichung : 1985.03.10Popularität : 4.215
Wild Harvest
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.09.26Popularität : 1.407
September Gun
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group...
Veröffentlichung : 1983.10.08Popularität : 1.042
Finnegan Begin Again
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Veröffentlichung : 1985.02.24Popularität : 3.328
When I Grow Up
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.04.19Popularität : 5.674
Night Plane from Chungking
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a...
Veröffentlichung : 1943.05.31Popularität : 1.282
Broadway's Lost Treasures
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy...
Veröffentlichung : 2003.08.10Popularität : 2.869
My Father's House
Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy,...
Veröffentlichung : 1975.01.01Popularität : 1.963
Wings Up
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
Veröffentlichung : 1943.05.27Popularität : 0.79
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do
A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others....
Veröffentlichung : 2015.11.06Popularität : 2.361
Sentinels in the Air
This short shows the important role played by members of the U.S. Air Force Reserve in the USA's defense against enemy attack.
Veröffentlichung : 1956.02.10Popularität : 0.593
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the...
Veröffentlichung : 2004.07.25Popularität : 2.843
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...
Veröffentlichung : 1984.01.01Popularität : 2.452
Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...
Veröffentlichung : 1982.03.08Popularität : 2.476