Robert Preston Movies

  • 1942
    Wake Island

    Wake Island

    Wake Island

    5.61942HD

    In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island...

    Wake Island
  • 1950
    The Sundowners

    The Sundowners

    The Sundowners

    5.41950HD

    Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.

    The Sundowners
  • 1960
    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

    6.71960HD

    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...

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • 1947
    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    Variety Girl

    6.11947HD

    Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...

    Variety Girl
  • 1972
    Child's Play

    Child's Play

    Child's Play

    6.11972HD

    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...

    Child's Play
  • 1980
    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

    01980HD

    A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson

    The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
  • 1985
    Finnegan Begin Again

    Finnegan Begin Again

    Finnegan Begin Again

    6.31985HD

    A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

    Finnegan Begin Again
  • 1951
    Cloudburst

    Cloudburst

    Cloudburst

    6.31951HD

    Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over...

    Cloudburst
  • 2004
    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    7.32004HD

    An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the...

    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
  • 1984
    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    Going Hollywood: The '30s

    101984HD

    Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

    Going Hollywood: The '30s
  • 1941
    Parachute Battalion

    Parachute Battalion

    Parachute Battalion

    5.51941HD

    Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond...

    Parachute Battalion
  • 1982
    Rehearsal for Murder

    Rehearsal for Murder

    Rehearsal for Murder

    6.41982HD

    A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.

    Rehearsal for Murder
  • 1948
    Whispering Smith

    Whispering Smith

    Whispering Smith

    6.51948HD

    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...

    Whispering Smith
  • 1982
    Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars

    Night of 100 Stars

    6.51982HD

    The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

    Night of 100 Stars
  • 1940
    Typhoon

    Typhoon

    Typhoon

    51940HD

    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...

    Typhoon
  • 1951
    Best of the Badmen

    Best of the Badmen

    Best of the Badmen

    6.81951HD

    After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim...

    Best of the Badmen
  • 1941
    The Night of January 16th

    The Night of January 16th

    The Night of January 16th

    51941HD

    Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested...

    The Night of January 16th
  • 1985
    Night of 100 Stars II

    Night of 100 Stars II

    Night of 100 Stars II

    81985HD

    This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

    Night of 100 Stars II
  • 1949
    The Lady Gambles

    The Lady Gambles

    The Lady Gambles

    61949HD

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

    The Lady Gambles
  • 1943
    Night Plane from Chungking

    Night Plane from Chungking

    Night Plane from Chungking

    61943HD

    Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a...

    Night Plane from Chungking