It’s the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis Read More »
Tag Archives: Robert Preston
Cloudburst (1951) Francis Searle, Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley
A Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office Read More »
New York Town (1941) Charles Vidor, Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston
Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer Read More »
All the Way Home (1963) Alex Segal, Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle
In early-1900s Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father’s sudden accidental death. Read More »
Night Plane from Chungking (1943) Ralph Murphy, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Otto Kruger
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road Read More »
Outrage! (1986) Walter Grauman, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Burgess Meredith
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape Read More »
Victor Victoria (1982) Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), a down-and-out British soprano, struggles to find work in the nightclubs of 1930s Paris. Read More »
The Last Frontier (1955) Anthony Mann, Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston
Crude and uncivilized backwoods trapper Jed Cooper and his two partners sign up as scouts in a remote Oregon army fort Read More »
Tulsa (1949) Stuart Heisler, Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Action, Drama, Romance, Western
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. Read More »
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Delbert Mann, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Drama
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. Read More »
Pacific Blackout (1941) Ralph Murphy, Robert Preston, Martha O’Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. Read More »
Junior Bonner (1972) Sam Peckinpah, Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Drama, Western
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. Read More »
The Last Starfighter (1984) Nick Castle, Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After finally achieving the high score on Starfighter, his favorite arcade game, everyday teenager Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) meets the game’s designer Read More »
Moon Over Burma (1940) Louis King, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Adventure
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. Read More »
The Music Man (1962) Morton DaCosta, Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Comedy, Musical, Romance
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 Read More »