Robert Preston

All Movies of Robert Preston

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  7.9
  Star Spangled Rhythm
  Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny (Eddie Bracken), who's in the Nav...
   1943

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  7.9
  Beau Geste
  BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots at his feet. When he points out that the tro...
  Character: Digby Geste

   1939

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  7.7
  Union Pacific
  This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union Pacific is completed and arrives at its destination i...
   1939

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  7.5
  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 wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reeni...
  Character: Rubin Flood

   1960

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  7.5
  Victor Victoria
  Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), a...
  Character: Carole "Toddy" Todd

   1982

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  7.4
  The Music Man
  Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill anyway....
  Character: Harold Hill

   1962

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  7.2
  How the West Was Won
  The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal, continue over the prairies from St. Louis duri...
  Character: Roger Morgan

   1962

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  7.0
  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 plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady a...
  Character: Brad Brady

   1949

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  7.0
  Pacific Blackout
  Character: Robert Draper

   1941

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  6.8
  Reap the Wild Wind
  In 1840, America's line life is the sea, with an intense commerce. In Key West shore, two ship savage companies dispute the wrecked vessels. The honest one belongs to the impulsive Loxi Claiborne and Capt. Phil Philpott and the ot...
  Character: Dan Cutler

   1942

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  6.6
  Big City
  Character: Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

   1948

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  6.5
  Wake Island
  In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men's tropical lassitude, but Pearl Harbor changes everything. Soon the island is attacked and...
   1942

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  6.3
  Variety Girl
  Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion...
   1947

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  6.2
  North West Mounted Police
  In 1885, three mismatched frontiersmen (teacher Riel, whiskey trader Corbeau, and trapper Duroc) foment rebellion in central Canada; only the local Mounties stand in their way. Constable Ronnie Logan loves Corbeau's savage daughte...
  Character: Ronnie Logan

   1940

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  6.0
  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 the island in her childhood. They must fight angry natives and a typhoon in orde
   1940

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  5.2
  My Outlaw Brother
  At the turn of the century, Denny O'Moore (Mickey Rooney), is enroute from his New York City home to Texas, to pay his brother, Patrick (Robert Stack), a surprise visit at the latter's silver mine across the Mexico border. Denny m...
   1951

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  The Chisholms (TV Series)
  The adventures of the Chisholm family as they travel west in 1844.
   1979

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  Semi-Tough
  A comedy about two football players and their mutual girlfriend. Includes many spoofs and parodies about various self-help groups and personal self-improvement seminars that were wildly popular during the 1970's.
   1977

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  Mame
  The musical revolves around the antics of Mame Dennis, a fun-loving, wealthy eccentric with a flare for life and a razor sharp wit. Her life is suddenly changed when she becomes the guardian of her late brother's only child, Patri...
   1974

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  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 not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
   1972

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  Junior Bonner
  A week with Junior Bonner, a rodeo pro on the wrong side of 40, broke, bruised, and headed into Prescott, his home town, for the annual 4th of July Frontier Days. His dad, Ace, is a dissolute dreamer fixed on finding gold in Austr...
   1972

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  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 the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to...
   1963

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  Face to Face
   1952

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  Best of the Badmen
  At the conclusion of the Civil War, Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, persuades the last of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Many of the Raiders are inf...
   1951

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  New York Town
  Victor Ballard (Fred MacMurray) is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski (Akim Tamiroff). When Victor shoots a photo of Alexandra Curtis ...
   1941

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  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 to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm A...
   1941