Preston Foster
The Time Travelers (1964)
The Time Travelers is a film directed by Ib Melchior and starring Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, Steve Franken, and John Hoyt. The film inspired the 1966 TV series The Time Tunnel, as well as the 1967 remake Journey to the Center of Time. The plot involves a group of scientists who find that due to an electrical overload their time-vie...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Tully Marshall
Montana Territory (1952)
Montana Territory is a 1952 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Lon McCallister, Wanda Hendrix, Preston Foster. It is a classic western movie, with bandits, a corrupt sheriff, and a hero who falls for a beautiful woman.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Irene Dunne•Ann Dvorak
The Big Gusher (1951)
The Big Gusher is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Lew Landers and starring Wayne Morris and Preston Foster. A pair oil prospectors on a drunken spree buy an apparently worthless piece of land from a con man, then attempt to find if there may really be oil there.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Wynne Gibson•Louis Calhern
Three Desperate Men (1951)
Three Desperate Men is a 1951 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Preston Foster, Jim Davis and Virginia Grey. It co-stars Kim Spalding, William Haade, Monte Blue and Sid Melton.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Clara Bow•Victor McLaglen
Tomahawk (1951)
Tomahawk is a 1951 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Van Heflin and Yvonne De Carlo. The film is loosely based on events that took place in Wyoming in 1866 to 1868 around Fort Phil Kearny on the Bozeman Trail such as the Fetterman Fight and Wagon Box Fight. In the UK, the film was released as The Battle of Powder River.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Brian Donlevy•Sally Eilers•Barbara Stanwyck•Leo Carrillo•James Gleason•Robert Montgomery
The Tougher They Come (1950)
The Tougher They Come is a 1950 American lumberjack drama film directed by Ray Nazarro and written by George Bricker. The film stars Wayne Morris, Preston Foster, Kay Buckley, William Bishop, Frank McHugh and Gloria Henry. The film was released on November 16, 1950, by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Wynne Gibson
The Big Cat (1949)
The Big Cat is a 1949 American outdoor action film in Technicolor directed by Phil Karlson. The cast included Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Skip Homeier, and Gene Reynolds.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Irene Dunne•Evalyn Knapp
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
I Shot Jesse James is a 1949 American Western film starring Reed Hadley as Jesse James and John Ireland as Bob Ford. Directed by Samuel Fuller in his debut behind the camera, it portrays the murder of Jesse James by Robert Ford and Robert Ford's life afterwards. The story is built around a fictional rivalry between Ford and his eventual killer Edwa...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Peggy Shannon
The Hunted (1948)
The Hunted is a 1948 American film noir crime film starring Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin and Edna Holland. It was directed by Jack Bernhard.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Randolph Scott
Thunderhoof (1948)
Thunderhoof is a 1948 American Western film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Preston Foster, Mary Stuart and William Bishop. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Holscher.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Andy Devine
King of the Wild Horses (1947)
King of the Wild Horses is a 1947 American Western film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Preston Foster, Gail Patrick and Billy Sheffield. Although the film shares its title with earlier films released in 1933 and 1924, it is not a remake.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Margaret Lindsay
Inside Job (1946)
Inside Job is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Jean Yarbrough starring Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Alan Curtis and Milburn Stone.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Gail Patrick
Strange Triangle (1946)
Strange Triangle is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Ray McCarey and starring Signe Hasso, Preston Foster and Anabel Shaw.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Herbert Mundin
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945)
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka is a 1945 American Western film directed by Louis King and starring Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, and Rita Johnson. It is a sequel to the 1943 film My Friend Flicka. The film was adapted to screen by Dwight Cummins and Dorothy Yost from Mary O'Hara's novel, Thunderhead (1943), second in a trilogy with My Friend Flicka (...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Donald Meek•Margaret Callahan
Bermuda Mystery (1944)
Bermuda Mystery is a 1944 American mystery film directed by Benjamin Stoloff and written by Scott Darling. The film stars Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Helene Reynolds, Jean Howard and Richard Lane. The film was released on May 1, 1944, by 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Henry Wilcoxon•Alex Nicol•Gail Patrick•Irene Hervey
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster is a 1944 American gangster film based on the life of Chicago mob figure Roger Touhy, directed by film noir specialist Robert Florey.
Starring: Jane Wyatt•Alex Nicol•Margot Grahame
My Friend Flicka (1943)
My Friend Flicka is a 1943 American Western film about a young boy, played by Roddy McDowall, who is given a young horse to raise. It is based on Mary O'Hara's popular 1941 children's novel of the same name. Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, released on March 15, 1945, was the sequel to My Friend Flicka.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Donald Meek•Margaret Callahan
American Empire (1942)
American Empire is a 1942 American Western film directed by William C. McGann. The film was released in the United Kingdom as My Son Alone.
Starring: Brenda Joyce•Joan Fontaine•Alex Nicol•Arthur Treacher
A Gentleman After Dark (1942)
A Gentleman After Dark is a 1942 crime/drama film starring Brian Donlevy and Miriam Hopkins.
Starring: Van Heflin•Virginia Grey•Alex Nicol
Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)
Little Tokyo, U.S.A. is a 1942 American film. Produced in the period just after the United States entered World War II, it was meant to alert Americans to the dangers of foreign agents. It is now controversial for its largely negative portrayal of Japanese-Americans.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Rita Johnson•Barry Fitzgerald
Night in New Orleans (1942)
Night in New Orleans is a 1942 American crime film directed by William Clemens and loosely adapted by Jonathan Latimer from the 1940 novel Sing a Song of Homicide by James R. Langham. The film stars Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth, Dooley Wilson and Paul Hurst. The film was released on July 1, 1942, by Paramount...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Richard Greene•Gene Tierney
Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
Secret Agent of Japan is a 1942 film directed by Irving Pichel. It was the first American anti-Japanese war film produced by a major studio after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The film stars Preston Foster as a nightclub owner in Shanghai who becomes involved in espionage revolving around preparations for the attack.
Starring: Alex Nicol•John Ireland
Thunder Birds (1942)
Thunder Birds is a 1942 Technicolor film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, and John Sutton. It features aerial photography and location filming at an actual Arizona training base of the United States Army Air Forces named Thunderbird Field No. 1 during World War II.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Albert Dekker•Patricia Morison
The Round Up (1941)
The Round Up is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Harold Shumate. The film stars Richard Dix, Patricia Morison, Preston Foster, Don Wilson, Ruth Donnelly, Jerome Cowan and Douglass Dumbrille. The film was released on April 4, 1941, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Brenda Joyce•Alex Nicol•Gene Tierney
Unfinished Business (1941)
Unfinished Business is a 1941 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery and Preston Foster. The screenplay concerns a young woman who quickly falls in love with a playboy, but when he shows no interest in making her his wife, marries his brother.
Starring: Helene Whitney•June Duprez•Alex Nicol
Cafe Hostess (1940)
Cafe Hostess is a 1940 American crime film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Preston Foster and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was written by Harold Shumate, based on a story by Tay Garnett and Howard Higgin. Prior to filming the studio had been warned by the MPAA that the film did not comply with its code, but it is unclear whether changes were m...
Starring: John Sutton•Signe Hasso•Alex Nicol
20,000 Men a Year (1939)
20,000 Men a Year is a 1939 American action film directed by Alfred E. Green and written by Lou Breslow and Owen Francis. The film stars Randolph Scott, Preston Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Mary Healy, Robert Shaw, George Ernest, Jane Darwell, Kane Richmond and Maxie Rosenbloom. It was the fourth and last film produced by Cosmopolitan Pictures in its ...
Starring: Belita•Lon McCallister•Alex Nicol
Chasing Danger (1939)
Chasing Danger is a 1939 American adventure film directed by Ricardo Cortez and written by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. The film stars Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Woodbury and Harold Huber. The film was released on May 5, 1939, by 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Dorothy Patrick•John Ireland•Wanda Hendrix
Geronimo (1939)
Geronimo is a 1939 American Western film starring Chief Thundercloud as Geronimo, the famous leader of Apache warriors who fought against American colonizers. It was directed by Paul Sloane. This is the first film depiction of Geronimo's life.
Starring: Mary Stuart•Alex Nicol•Rock Hudson
Missing Evidence (1939)
Missing Evidence is a 1939 American drama film, directed by Phil Rosen. It stars Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, and Inez Courtney, and was released on December 15, 1939.
Starring: Alex Nicol•John War Eagle•Merry Anders
News Is Made at Night (1939)
News Is Made at Night is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Alfred L. Werker and written by John Larkin. The film stars Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Russell Gleason, George Barbier, Eddie Collins and Minor Watson. The film was released on July 21, 1939, by 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Alex Nicol•John Ireland
Army Girl (1938)
Army Girl is a 1938 American comedy film directed by George Nicholls Jr. and starring Madge Evans and Preston Foster. It was a high budget film by Republic Pictures.
Starring: Alan Hale•Tully Marshall•Alex Nicol
Double Danger (1938)
Double Danger is a 1938 American crime drama directed by Lew Landers, using a screenplay by Arthur T. Horman and J. Robert Bren based on Horman's story. The film stars Preston Foster and Whitney Bourne, with supporting roles by Donald Meek and Samuel S. Hinds. Produced by RKO Radio Pictures, it was released on January 28, 1938.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Madge Evans
Everybody's Doing It (1938)
Everybody's Doing It is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Christy Cabanne using a screenplay by J. Robert Bren, Edmund Joseph, and Harry Segall, based on George Beck's story. RKO produced and distributed the film, releasing it on January 14, 1938. The movie stars Preston Foster and Sally Eilers.
Starring: May Robson•Lila Lee•Alex Nicol
The Lady in the Morgue (1938)
The Lady in the Morgue (1936) is one of the novels by Jonathan Latimer featuring private detective William Crane. The lady of the title is a female corpse which is stolen from a Chicago morgue before the dead woman's identity can be established.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Louis Calhern
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Submarine Patrol is a 1938 film directed by John Ford and starring Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly and Preston Foster. The supporting cast features George Bancroft, Elisha Cook, Jr., John Carradine, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jack Pennick, Ward Bond and an unbilled Lon Chaney Jr. as a Marine sentry. The movie was partly written by William Faulkner.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Carole Lombard•Clara Bow
Up the River (1938)
Up the River is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, and starring Claire Luce, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. The plot concerns escaped convicts, as well as a female convict. It was the feature film debut role of both Tracy and Bogart. Despite Bogart being billed fourth, Tracy's and Bogart's roles were almost equally larg...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Basil Rathbone•Sally Eilers
The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat is a 1937 American Western film directed by Christy Cabanne and written by John Twist and Harry Segall. The film stars Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin, Virginia Weidler and Margaret Irving. The film was released on April 16, 1937, by RKO Pictures.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Barbara Stanwyck•Sally Eilers
The Plough and the Stars (1937)
The Plough and the Stars is a 1937 American drama film directed by John Ford and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster. It is based on the play of the same name written by Seán O'Casey.
Starring: Nancy Kelly•Alex Nicol•Guinn Williams
Sea Devils (1937)
Sea Devils is a 1937 American film directed by Benjamin Stoloff. Among the American "preparedness films" of the mid-1930s devoted to enhancing the image of the Army, the Navy and the Marines, this entry focuses equivalent approving attention on the work of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Starring: Jane Wyatt•Alex Nicol•Evalyn Knapp
We Who Are About to Die (1937)
We Who Are About to Die is a 1937 film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, and John Beal. It was based on a book by David Lansom, who was tried four times for murdering his wife before being set free.
Starring: John Sutton•Alex Nicol•Peggy Shannon
You Can't Beat Love (1937)
You Can't Beat Love is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Christy Cabanne and written by Maxwell Shane and David Silverstein. The film stars Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine, Herbert Mundin, William Brisbane and Alan Bruce. The film was released on June 25, 1937.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Zita Johann•Arline Judge
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Love Before Breakfast is a 1936 American romantic comedy starring Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, and Cesar Romero, based on Faith Baldwin's short story Spinster Dinner, published in International-Cosmopolitan in July 1934. The film was directed by Walter Lang from a screenplay by Herbert Fields assisted by numerous contract writers, including Pres...
Starring: Melvyn Douglas•Alex Nicol•Noel Madison
Muss 'Em Up (1936)
Muss 'Em Up is a 1936 American detective drama film directed by Charles Vidor from a screenplay by Erwin Gelsey. RKO Radio pictures premiered the film in New York City on February 1, 1936, with a nationwide opening on February 14. The film stars Preston Foster and Margaret Callahan, with a supporting cast which includes Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, ...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Aline MacMahon
Annie Oakley (1935)
Annie Oakley is a 1935 American Western film directed by George Stevens and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas and Moroni Olsen. The film is based on the life of Annie Oakley.
Starring: Nancy Kelly•Donald Meek•Alex Nicol
The Arizonian (1935)
The Arizonian is a 1935 American Western film directed by Charles Vidor and starring Richard Dix, Margot Grahame, Preston Foster, and Louis Calhern. The screenplay was by Dudley Nichols. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 28, 1935.
Starring: Brenda Joyce•Cesar Romero•Alex Nicol•Ida Lupino
The Informer (1935)
The Informer is a 1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty. Set in 1922, the plot concerns the underside of the Irish War of Independence and centers on a disgraced Republican man, played by Victor McLaglen, who anonymously...
Starring: Jane Wyatt•Alex Nicol•Jane Wyatt
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) is an RKO Radio Pictures film starring Preston Foster and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, creators of the original King Kong. Although inspired by the novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the film has nothing to do with the book. Indeed, a Foreword appearing after the film's opening ...
Starring: Phyllis Brooks•Margot Grahame•Alex Nicol
The People's Enemy (1935)
The People's Enemy is a 1935 American crime film directed by Crane Wilbur, from a screenplay by Gordon Kahn and Edward Dean Sullivan, based on Sullivan's story. The film stars Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, and Charles Coburn.
Starring: Virginia Weidler•Donald Meek•Alex Nicol
Strangers All (1935)
Strangers All is a 1935 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor from a screenplay by Milton Krims. The film stars May Robson and Preston Foster, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures on April 26, 1935.
Starring: Margaret Callahan•Alex Nicol
We're Only Human (1935)
We're Only Human is a 1935 American drama film directed by James Flood from a screenplay by Rian James. Starring Preston Foster, Jane Wyatt, and James Gleason, it was released by RKO Radio Pictures on December 27, 1935.
Starring: Alex Nicol•Joan Fontaine
Heat Lightning (1934)
Heat Lightning is a 1934 Pre-Code drama film starring Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, and Preston Foster. It is based on the play of the same name by Leon Abrams and George Abbott.
Starring: John Sutton•Alex Nicol•Arthur Treacher
Corruption (1933)
Corruption is a 1933 American Pre-Code film directed by Charles E. Roberts and starring Evalyn Knapp and Preston Foster. The film is also known as Double Exposure in the United Kingdom.
Starring: Whitney Bourne•Barry Fitzgerald•Alex Nicol
The Devil's Mate (1933)
The Devil's Mate is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Phil Rosen, starring Peggy Shannon and Preston Foster.
Starring: Willie Fung•Alex Nicol
Hoop-La (1933)
Hoop-La is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Clara Bow, Preston Foster, Richard Cromwell and Minna Gombell also in the cast. The film is based on the play The Barker by Kenyon Nicholson, which was also filmed in 1928 under the same title as the play.
Starring: Richard Greene•Alex Nicol
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot. The film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a bank-robbery gang. It is based on the play Gangstress, or Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles. ...
Starring: Nancy Kelly•Alex Nicol
The Man Who Dared (1933)
The Man Who Dared is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and written by Dudley Nichols and Lamar Trotti. The film stars Preston Foster, Zita Johann, Joan Marsh, Phillip Trent, and June Lang. The film was released on June 30, 1933, by Fox Film Corporation.
Starring: Zita Johann•Alex Nicol
Sensation Hunters (1933)
Sensation Hunters is a 1933 American pre-Code B movie directed by Charles Vidor, starring Arline Judge, Preston Foster and Marion Burns, and released by Monogram Pictures. The film briefly features Walter Brennan as a stuttering waiter.
Starring: Arline Judge•Alex Nicol
The Last Mile (1932)
The Last Mile is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Samuel Bischoff and starring Preston Foster. The picture is based on John Wexley's 1930 Broadway play, The Last Mile. Actor Howard Phillips appeared in both the play and the film but in different roles. In 1959, the play was adapted a second time into a film of the same name sta...
Starring: Alex Nicol•Noel Madison