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Robert Preston
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Robert Preston - what members say
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Bonner Boys bump Broncos and Bulls 19 January 2009
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A woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman... 26 February 2004
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Great Whodunnit 5 September 2005
Robert Preston - filmography
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Victor/Victoria
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Alex Karras, Robert Preston
Director: Blake Edwards
Certificate: 
Blake Edwards tones down the broadly farcical style that is his signature with this sly musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris. Desperate for work, he changes ..read more »
 
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from 1,522 member
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Semi-Tough
(1977)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh
Director: Michael Ritchie
Certificate: 
SEMI-TOUGH is an easygoing satire about two football stars who contend for the same woman, who just happens to be the coach's daughter. The film contains numerous parodies of the self-improvement craze of the 1970s.
51%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Junior Bonner
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Certificate: 
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 ..read more »
60%
from 373 members
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The Music Man
(1962)
Starring: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Director: Morton DaCosta
Certificate:
An energetic con artist convinces the citizens of a small turn-of-the-century community to form a boy's band - which he plans to lead. This classic Hollywood musical features such hits as "76 Trombones," "Ya Got Trouble," and many more.
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from 49 members
Currently unavailable
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The Music Man
(1962)
Starring: Buddy Hackett, Robert Preston, Hermione Gingold
Director: Morton Da Costa
Certificate: 
A con-man persuades the citizens of a small town to form a boy's band, which he plans to lead. Features the songs '76 Trombones', 'Till There Was You', 'Ya Got Trouble' and 'Goodnight My Some-one'.
70%
from 427 members
Not currently released
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The Best of the Badmen
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Robert Preston
Director: William D Russell
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In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a gang of vanquished Confederate veterans known as the Quantrill Raiders are roaming the West branded as outlaws by the new Yankee government. The gang includes the Younger and James brothers, and has refused to lay down their arms after the Civil War ..read more »
60%
from 15 members
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The Sundowners
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Robert Sterling, Robert Preston, Chill Wills
Director: George Templeton
Certificate:
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 ..read more »
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from 51 members
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Tulsa
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Ed Begley
Director: Stuart Heisler
Certificate:
In the midst of the oil boom with what began as a crusade to fight developers takes a turn as the daughter of a cattle owner hits a rich vein of rich oil and builds the oil empire that threatens the livelihoods of long-established cattle ranchers and their way of life. She must decide between her ..read more »
44%
from 80 members
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Blood On The Moon
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston
Director: Robert Wise
Certificate:
Unemployed cowhand and one-time rancher Jim Garry answers his friend Tate Riling's call to help him out in a dispute between a group of homesteaders and cattle rancher John Lufton. What Garry learns is that his old friend has cooked up a scheme with the local Indian agent to cancel Lufton's ..read more »
61%
from 23 members
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This Gun For Hire
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Veronica lake
Director: Frank Tuttle
Certificate:
In this classic film noir, tough-guy thriller, Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. A hired gun, Raven is kind to everyone but his targets, and when he kills an extortionist and ..read more »
71%
from 403 members
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Reap The Wild Wind
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
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John Wayne, Ray Milland, and Paulette Goddard team up with the legendary producer-director Cecil B. DeMille to create one of the greatest swashbuckling epics of all time. Adventures on the panoramic high seas highlight this tale of two men competing for the same woman. Key West in the 1840s is ..read more »
61%
from 206 members
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Beau Geste
(1939)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Director: William A. Wellman
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Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
68%
from 43 members
Currently unavailable
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Robert Preston facts
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...kinpah's tributes to the 'Old West', this time he is aided by Steve McQueen and Robert Preston.
Here we see the Rodeo Show hitting JR (Jnr) Bonner's (McQueen) Home Town an...
