Robert Preston

The Last Starfighter (1984)

Cast: Robert Preston Dan O'Herlihy King Baggot Catherine Stewart Wil Wheaton   

Tags: Sci-Fi Action Sci-Fi Comedy Space Adventure Science Fiction 

Length: 100min

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...

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Semi-Tough (1977)

Cast: Burt Reynolds Gene Autry Kris Kristofferson Robert Preston Jill Clayburgh   

Tags: Comedy Drama Sports Drama Sports Comedy 

Length: 107min

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...

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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)

Cast: Henry Fonda Robert Preston Ralph Rosenblum Fred Gwynne Frances Sternhagen   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 40min

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...

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Finnegan Begin Again (1984)

Cast: Mary Tyler Moore Robert Preston Joan Micklin Silver Sam Waterston Sylvia Sidney   

Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama 

Length: 112min

Written by Walter Lockwood and directed by Joan Micklin Silver, Finnegan Begin Again is a whimsical comedy drama about a late-blooming omance. Robert Preston plays a Mike Finnegan, 65-year-old newspaperman resigned to wasting his time on a lonely...

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Victor/Victoria (1982)

Cast: Julie Andrews Lesley Ann Warren Robert Preston James Garner Henry Mancini   

Tags: Farce Comedy Musical Showbiz Comedy Comedy of Errors 

Length: 133min

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?...

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Junior Bonner (1972)

Cast: Sam Peckinpah Steve McQueen Ida Lupino Robert Preston Joe Don Baker   

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Western Modern Western 

Length: 100min

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...

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Mame (1974)

Cast: Lucille Ball Robert Preston Gene Saks Bea Arthur Bruce Davison   

Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical 

Length: 132min

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...

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Child's Play (1972)

Cast: James Mason Sidney Lumet Beau Bridges Robert Preston Robert D. Randall   

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Mystery 

Length: 100min

Leon Prochnik adapted the evocative Robert Moresco play +Child's Play for the screen, with Sidney Lumet assuming directorial duties. Beau Bridges stars as a young teacher at an exclusive Catholic boy's boarding school named Paul Reis. An outbreak of...

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My Father's House (1975)

Cast: Robert Preston Cliff Robertson Eileen Brennan Ruth McDevitt Hilyard M. Brown   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 96min

A magazine editor (Cliff Robertson) suffers a heart attack and begins to reminisce about the happy childhood he spent with his father (Robert Preston). The memories cause him to wonder about the family he has raised since growing up. ~ John Bush, All...

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