Cast: Robert Preston

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy

Synopsis 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 troopers...

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Julie Andrews · James Garner · Robert Preston · Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis In Victor Victoria (1982), a struggling soprano in 1930s Paris teams up with a gay cabaret performer to reinvent herself as a male impersonator, "Victor," who becomes a sensation as a female illusionist. As her fame grows, she navigates a...

Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe

Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck

Synopsis How the West Was Won (1962) follows the epic journey of the Prescott family across generations as they venture westward during the 19th century. Through interconnected stories, the film captures the challenges and triumphs of pioneers, settlers, and outlaws shaping...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston

Synopsis 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 in Ogden...

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Alan Ladd · Veronica Lake · Robert Preston · Laird Cregar

Synopsis Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Steve McQueen · Robert Preston · Ida Lupino · Joe Don Baker

Synopsis 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...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Robert Preston · Stephen McNally · Edith Barrett

Synopsis When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast John Wayne · Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Raymond Massey

Synopsis 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 other...

Direction Morton da Costa

Cast Robert Preston · Shirley Jones · Buddy Hackett · Hermione Gingold

Synopsis 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...

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Madeleine Carroll · Paulette Goddard · Preston Foster

Synopsis 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 daughter Louvette; his pal Jim Brett loves April,...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Robert Mitchum · Barbara Bel Geddes · Robert Preston · Walter Brennan

Synopsis When a shady-looking stranger rides into town to join his old friend it is assumed he is a hired gun. But as the new man comes to realise the unlawful nature of his buddy's business and the way the homesteaders...

Direction Gene Saks

Cast Lucille Ball · Bea Arthur · Robert Preston · Bruce Davison

Synopsis 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, Patrick...

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Gregory Peck · Joan Bennett · Robert Preston · Reginald Denny

Synopsis Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savannah. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to chase buffalo. The obnoxius ways of Margaret Macomber make the three of them get on each others nerves. During the hunt...

Direction John Farrow

Cast Brian Donlevy · Macdonald Carey · Robert Preston · William Bendix

Synopsis 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 the Marines pull...

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Robert Preston · Dorothy McGuire · Eve Arden · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis 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...

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Victor Mature · Robert Preston · Guy Madison · Anne Bancroft

Synopsis Trapper Jed Cooper (Victor Mature) signs on as a scout at a remote army post in Oregon. In time, Colonel Marston (Robert Preston) arrives at the fort and, as ranking officer, relieves Captain Riordan (Guy Madison) of his command. Riordan...

Direction Leslie Fenton

Cast Alan Ladd · Robert Preston · Brenda Marshall · Donald Crisp

Synopsis 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 after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).

Direction Nick Castle

Cast Lance Guest · Dan O'Herlihy · Catherine Mary Stewart · Robert Preston

Synopsis He's got one extraordinary chance at the dream of a lifetime. Alex Rogan is a small-town teenager with big-time dreams. He's just like everyone else, except Alex has a very special talent... Tonight, a mysterious stranger will call on Alex....

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast James Mason · Robert Preston · Beau Bridges · Ronald Weyand

Synopsis 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.

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Susan Hayward · Robert Preston · Pedro Armendáriz · Lloyd Gough

Synopsis 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...