The Music Man (1962) more movies like this

directed by Morton Da Costa
featuring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Pert Kelton, Ronny Howard, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford

Meredith Wilson's hit 1957 Broadway musical was transferred to the screen in larger-than-life fashion in 1962. Robert Preston repeats his legendary stage performance as fast-talking con man Harold Hill, who goes from town to town selling citizens on starting a "boy's band," then extracts money from them by ordering instruments and uniforms, with ...

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The Last Starfighter (1984) more movies like this

directed by Nick Castle, Jr.
featuring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Stewart, Barbara Bosson

Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter . His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the outer reaches of the galaxy! It turns out that the ...

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Victor/Victoria (1982) more movies like this

directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras

On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Victoria (Julie Andrews) is rescued by gay cabaret performer Toddy (Robert Preston). What she needs to succeed, opines Toddy, is a gimmick. What if she becomes a male impersonator? Better still: what if she becomes a male impersonator, pretending to be a female impersonator? As ...

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Reap the Wild Wind (1942) more movies like this

directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston

Cecil B. DeMille's Technicolor historical spectacle Reap the Wild Wind was to have starred Gary Cooper, but Cooper's prior commitment to Goldwyn's Pride of the Yankees compelled DeMille to recast the leading role with John Wayne. The film, set in the mid-19th century, centers around Key West, Florida, where piracy reigns unchecked. Wayne plays ...

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Mame (1974) more movies like this

directed by Gene Saks
featuring George Chiang, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Kirby Furlong, Bruce Davison

Lucille Ball stars in this film version of the hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical, which featured an electrifying performance by Angela Lansbury. As Patrick Dennis' plucky and resilient Auntie Mame, Ball's low-pitched, growling moan of a voice (a spine-chilling reminder of the sound of Linda Blair's demon-possession in The Exorcist) and her gaudy ...

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Semi-Tough (1977) more movies like this

directed by Michael Ritchie
featuring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy

Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as two pro-football pals who both fall for the team-owner's very rich daughter. Kind of goofy, kind of funny, and somewhat endearing--those are the qualities that surface in this light-hearted comedy built upon an extremely predictable scenario. All Movie Guide

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Junior Bonner (1972) more movies like this

directed by Sam Peckinpah
featuring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Joe Don Baker

Sam Peckinpah eschews his slow-motion bullet ballets for this quiet character study of ex-rodeo cowboy turned drifter Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), who returns home to Arizona to reconcile with the family he hasn't seen in years. Bonner is shocked to see that the solid family he was hoping to come back to is breaking apart. His parents, Ace ...

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This Gun for Hire (1942) more movies like this

directed by Frank Tuttle
featuring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall

Though billed fourth in This Gun For Hire, Alan Ladd was catapulted to stardom in the role of Phillip Raven, a ruthless professional killer with a long-suppressed streak of decency. After successfully pulling off his latest murder, Raven reports to his boss, effeminate fifth columnist Willard Gates (Laird Cregar). He collects his $1000 fee, only ...

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Beau Geste (1939) more movies like this

directed by William Wellman
featuring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward

This second of three movie versions of P.C. Wren's adventure novel Beau Geste is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1927 silent version. We open on the now-famous scenes of a remote, burning desert fort, manned by the dead Foreign Legionnaires, then flash back to the early lives of the Geste brothers. As children, the Gestes swear eternal ...

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Union Pacific (1939) more movies like this

directed by Cecil B. DeMille
featuring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Lynne Overman

Cecil B. DeMille takes us back to the 1860s, then rebuilds the first intercontinental railroad in Union Pacific. The real-life spectacle is occasionally interrupted by the fictional adventures of railroad overseer Joel McCrea, postmistress Barbara Stanwyck (with an incredible Irish brogue), and McCrea's best pal Robert Preston. Unfortunately ...

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Tulsa (1949) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Heisler, Stuart Hiesler
featuring Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills

Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence, especially the technical credits, suggests that the film was put together at Universal-International, then merely distriibuted by Eagle-Lion (who made a fortune at the box office). The film traces the matriculation of the sleepy ...

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Whispering Smith (1948) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Fenton, Mel Epstein
featuring Alan Ladd, Brenda Marshall, Robert Preston, Donald Crisp, William Demarest

This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to justice and rekindles an old flame. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Wake Island (1942) more movies like this

directed by John Farrow
featuring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton

The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced participation in World War II. The first two reels takes place in the weeks prior to Pearl Harbor, as Wake Island military commander Brian Donlevy carries on a friendly rivalry with Seabee supervisor Albert Dekker. Once the US ...

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The Last Frontier (1955) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Victor Mature, Guy Madison, Robert Preston, James Whitmore, Anne Bancroft

Victor Mature is in rare form in this otherwise uneven cavalry Western about a trapper who prevents a Little Big Horn-type disaster. Having been robbed of a year's worth of skins by marauding Indians, Jed Cooper (Mature), Gus Hideout (James Whitmore), and Mungo (Pat Hogan) sign on at a nearby fort. Jed, however, falls in love with Corinna (Anne ...

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980) more movies like this

directed by Ralph Rosenblum
featuring Robert Preston

Filmed in Vermont, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is based on one of Mark Twain's more mysoginistic works. Mysterious stranger Robert Preston shows up in Hadleyburg, a town that prides itself upon the honesty and integrity of its leaders. Preston offers $40,000 in gold to the anonymous Hadleyburg citizen who, years earlier, had given Preston a ...

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Finnegan Begin Again (1984) more movies like this

directed by Joan Micklin Silver
featuring Mary Tyler Moore, Robert Preston, Sylvia Sidney

Written by Walter Lockwood and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, Finnegan Begin Again is a whimsical comedy drama about a late-blooming romance. Robert Preston plays a Mike Finnegan, 65-year-old newspaperman resigned to wasting his time on a lonely hearts column and caring for his ailing, unappreciative wife (Sylvia Sidney). Mary Tyler Moore ...

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The Sundowners (1950) more movies like this

directed by George Templeton
featuring Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, John Litel, Cathy Downs

Filmed in a two-tone process called Cinecolor, The Sundowners is a compact little western making good use of an old Hollywood chestnut. Robert Preston and Robert Sterling play two brothers who find themselves on opposite sides of the legal fence. Since Sterling rather than Preston has the mustache this time, Sterling's the bad guy. Caught in the ...

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Outrage! (1986) more movies like this

directed by Walter E. Grauman
featuring Beau Bridges, Robert Preston

Robert Preston stars as a family man who kills the man who raped and murdered his daughter. After confessing to the police, he is defended by an idealistic attorney played by Beau Bridges. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Blood on the Moon (1948) more movies like this

directed by Robert Wise
featuring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Phyllis Thaxter

One of the best "psychological" westerns of the 1940s, RKO Radio's Blood on the Moon stars Robert Mitchum as itinerant cowboy Jim Garry. Riding into a Texas Indian reservation, Garry finds himself embroiled in a deadly feud between cattle ranchers and homesteaders. He befriends both Amy Lufton (Barbara Bel Geddes), daughter of wealthy cattle man ...

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My Outlaw Brother (1951) more movies like this

directed by Elliott Nugent
featuring Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Carlos Muzquiz

This medium-budget western is also known as My Brother, the Outlaw and Outlaw Brother. Mickey Rooney plays an Eastern dude who heads westward to visit his brother Robert Stack. When ranger Robert Preston informs Rooney that Stack is a wanted outlaw, the Mick refuses to believe it. But when Preston's words prove to be true, Rooney vows to bring ...

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Parachute Battalion (1941) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Goodwins
featuring Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien, Nancy Kelly, Harry Carey, Buddy Ebsen

In this patriotic war drama, a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps. One is an arrogant football star who finds jumping a kick. Another is a coward who eventually finds his courage. Finally there is a chronic bumbler. The coward and jock find themselves competing for the affections of an indecisive young woman. The filmmakers of this ...

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