Robert Preston
14 titles
Filmography
14 results

Rehearsal for Murder
(1982)Playwright Alex Dennison reunites five showbiz friends under the guise of novel feedback, aiming to unmask the killer of his fiancé, Monica Welles.

The Sundowners
(1950)Dos hermanos se enfrentan en una guerra de tierras en Texas, donde la venganza, el robo de ganado y el asesinato se justifican con ira justiciera.

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
(1980)As in Mark Twain’s tale, the smug residents of a town known for its honesty face temptation, when a vengeful stranger plots to expose their hypocrisy.

The Last Starfighter
(1984)When Alex conquers the Starfighter video game, he is recruited to be part of an elite legion of fighters and battle for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds - including Earth.

This Gun for Hire
(1942)Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in This Gun for Hire, a hard-edged story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. Raven (Ladd) is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), owner of Nitro Chemical and a suspected traitor by the U.S. government. Ellen (Lake), a beautiful nightclub singer and working undercover is hired by Gates to sing at his club. A twist of events leads Raven and Ellen to join forces and before the case is wrapped up, someone will pay with his life.

Tulsa
(1949)When a rancher dies during a feud with a big oil company, his daughter takes revenge by digging her own wells, assisted by an expert and a friend.

Child's Play
(1972)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 not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

All the Way Home
(1963)In the early 1900's Tennessee, a family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Big City
(1948)Margaret O'Brien sings, dances and keeps the faith in this heartwarming musical drama co-starring Robert Preston, Danny Thomas and George Murphy. Midge (O'Brien) is the luckiest girl in New York. Found abandoned as an infant, she's adopted by a cantor (Thomas), a reverend (Preston) and a Catholic cop (Murphy), who raise her together as only three loving fathers can. But when the police officer marries a saloon singer (Betty Garrett) and insists on sole custody, the trio winds up in court, where Midge, with the help of a kind-hearted judge (Edward Arnold), must decide what's best for her fathers as well as herself. Highlighted by opera legend Lotte Lehmann in her only American film appearance and featuring Broadway star Betty Garrett in her big-screen debut, Big City is MGM at its musical best.

Victor/Victoria
(1982)A female entertainer finds fame by posing as a man in drag.

Blood on the Moon
(1948)Robert Mitchum and Barbara Bel Geddes star in this taut Western thriller about a gunslinger who realizes he's been hired to be the villain in Blood on the Moon.

My Outlaw Brother
(1951)Denny O'Moore travels to Mexico in search of his brother, Patrick, who has become involved with a notoriously dangerous gang called El Tigre.
Best of the Badmen
(1951)In the American West, in the days after the United States' Civil War, soldiers from the defeated Confederacy fight to defend their neighbors' farms from corrupt Northern corporations. Of these men, the most famous--or infamous--are the Younger brothers and the James brothers... the Best of the Badmen. In the closing days of the Civil War, a band of Confederate soldiers, Quantrill's Raiders, wage a devastating guerilla war against the Union. When their side surrenders, the men who rode with Quantrill return home--but find farmers losing everything they own to Northern banks protected by the gunmen of the Pinkerton Company. Now, these men, Jeff Clanton (Robert Ryan), Jesse and Frank James (Lawrence Tierney and Tom Tyler) and Bob and Cole Younger (Jack Buetel and Bruce Cabot) and their brothers and cousins, use the lethal skills they learned in the War to defend their neighbors.

Semi-Tough
(1977)When Barbara falls in love with Shake, their best friend Billy Clyde realizes that she's the woman he’s wanted all along!