
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 »
Tag Archives: Robert Preston
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 »
Child’s Play (1972) Sidney Lumet, James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Paul Reis returns to the exclusive Catholic prep school he graduated from nine years earlier as a gym teacher. Read More »
The Macomber Affair (1947) Zoltan Korda, Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Adventure

Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savanna. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to hunt buffalo. Read More »
Father’s House (1975) Alex Segal, Cliff Robertson, Robert Preston, Eileen Brennan, Drama

While recuperating from a heart attack–brought about in part by his job as a hard-charging but highly paid executive–a man begins to reflect on his life and the simpler time when he was growing up. Read More »
Wake Island (1942) John Farrow, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Action, Drama, War

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 Read More »