Robert Preston Movie Trailers
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Confession Trailer (1956)
29 November 1956
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Big City Trailer (1948)
25 March 1948
A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.
Going Hollywood: The '30s Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Wild Harvest Trailer (1947)
26 September 1947
Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson. Joe's buddy Jim joins the crew with startup money.
Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do Trailer (2015)
06 November 2015
A retrospective of Chita Rivera's film, television and stage career, including interviews with Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, Carol Lawrence and others.
When I Grow Up Trailer (1951)
19 April 1951
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather.
The Night of January 16th Trailer (1941)
28 November 1941
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interest in the outcome of the trial.
Beau Geste Trailer (1939)
24 July 1939
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff.
Broadway's Lost Treasures Trailer (2003)
10 August 2003
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H.
S.O.B. Trailer (1981)
01 July 1981
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
How the West Was Won Trailer (1962)
02 November 1962
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Night of 100 Stars II Trailer (1985)
10 March 1985
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 taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Mame Trailer (1974)
07 March 1974
The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother's 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care.
All the Way Home Trailer (1963)
17 October 1963
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death.
Typhoon Trailer (1940)
16 May 1940
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 the island in her childhood.
The Macomber Affair Trailer (1947)
20 April 1947
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
September Gun Trailer (1983)
08 October 1983
Ben Sunday, a long-in-tooth gunfighter forms an uneasy alliance with a Catholic nun. The single-minded sister wants to erect a sanctuary for a group of Apache orphans.
This Gun for Hire Trailer (1942)
24 April 1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills.
Disclosure Trailer (2020)
19 June 2020
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
The Music Man Trailer (1962)
19 June 1962
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
The Last Starfighter Trailer (1984)
13 July 1984
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test.
The Lady Gambles Trailer (1949)
20 May 1949
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story.
Finnegan Begin Again Trailer (1985)
24 February 1985
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.
Variety Girl Trailer (1947)
29 August 1947
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 young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Blood on the Moon Trailer (1948)
11 November 1948
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute.
Wake Island Trailer (1942)
11 August 1942
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 base.
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade Trailer (2004)
25 July 2004
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 Western genre forever.
Whispering Smith Trailer (1948)
09 December 1948
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.
Rehearsal for Murder Trailer (1982)
26 May 1982
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.
Reap the Wild Wind Trailer (1942)
26 March 1942
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Victor/Victoria Trailer (1982)
25 April 1982
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
My Outlaw Brother Trailer (1951)
22 August 1951
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to.
Made in Heaven Trailer (1956)
06 December 1956
When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Tulsa Trailer (1949)
13 April 1949
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.
Night of 100 Stars Trailer (1982)
08 March 1982
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Island of Love Trailer (1963)
12 June 1963
Con artist Steve Blair persuades Tony Dallas, a Manhattan gangster, to finance a movie about Adam and Eve by offering the female lead to Tony's stripper girl friend, Cha Cha Miller.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Trailer (1960)
28 September 1960
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt.
The Last Frontier Trailer (1955)
07 December 1955
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.
Semi-Tough Trailer (1977)
18 November 1977
A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
Best of the Badmen Trailer (1951)
09 August 1951
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 allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status.
Wings Up Trailer (1943)
27 May 1943
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces.
Child's Play Trailer (1972)
12 December 1972
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.
Star Spangled Rhythm Trailer (1942)
05 March 1942
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade.
Union Pacific Trailer (1939)
05 May 1939
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California.
North West Mounted Police Trailer (1940)
22 October 1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder.
Junior Bonner Trailer (1972)
21 July 1972
With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo.
Pacific Blackout Trailer (1941)
31 December 1941
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring.
Cloudburst Trailer (1951)
01 July 1951
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 by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder.
New York Town Trailer (1941)
31 October 1941
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski.
The Sundowners Trailer (1950)
02 February 1950
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
King of Alcatraz Trailer (1938)
30 September 1938
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Outrage! Trailer (1986)
02 March 1986
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young woman, her father murders the man.
Face to Face Trailer (1952)
01 November 1952
Two short films released together under a collective title. The first, "Secret Sharer", directed by John Brahm and starring James Mason, is based on a short story by Joseph Conrad.
Parachute Battalion Trailer (1941)
12 September 1941
Pre-Pearl Harbor propaganda film about young Americans, from various social backgrounds, who undergo parachute training at Fort Benning prior to becoming paratroopers.
The Lady from Cheyenne Trailer (1941)
11 April 1941
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots.
My Father's House Trailer (1975)
01 June 1975
Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson adds an emotional center to this messy, flashback-filled 'heavy' dramatic piece.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Trailer (1980)
17 March 1980
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.
Night Plane from Chungking Trailer (1943)
31 May 1943
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border.
Moon Over Burma Trailer (1940)
26 July 1940
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
Illegal Traffic Trailer (1938)
02 November 1938
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot.