Movies by Actor - Preston Foster (97 [Missing: 21]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| The All-AmericanNA | 1932 | | Drama,Sport | | | Not Available |
| Doctor XA wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer. | 1932 | Michael Curtiz | Comedy,Crime,Horror | 6.4 (3.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| I Am a Fugitive From a Chain GangWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 8.2 (13K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Last Mile, TheAn innocent man sentenced to death gets caught up in a prison riot. | 1932 | Samuel Bischoff | Action,Crime,Drama | 6.2 (358 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Life BeginsAt a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward running smoothly. Things liven up when Gr... | 1932 | James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Drama,Romance | 6.6 (395 votes) | 71 | 20220723 |
| Two SecondsA condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| You Said a MouthfulShipping clerk Joe Holt is mistaken for a swimming champion and expected to compete in a long-distance swim race off Catalina Island. | 1932 | Lloyd Bacon | Comedy | 6.1 (408 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| CorruptionA young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him | 1933 | Charles E. Roberts | Action,Adventure,Crime | 5.7 (152 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous CrossroadsNA | 1933 | | Action,Adventure,Crime | | | Not Available |
| The Devil's MateNA | 1933 | | Drama,Mystery | | | Not Available |
| Elmer the GreatCountry bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers. | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Family,Romance | 6.1 (485 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| HooplaA hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the son of the show's manager. | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.6 (270 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Ladies They Talk AboutAttractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her. | 1933 | Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Drama | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Dared, TheAn "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami on February 15, 1933. | 1933 | Hamilton MacFadden | Biography,Crime,Drama | 5.5 (32 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Band Plays On, TheA judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars. | 1934 | Russell Mack | Drama,Sport | 6.5 (63 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Heat LightningIn the Mojave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of Geor | 1934 | Mervyn LeRoy | Crime,Drama | 7.1 (774 votes) | 63 | 20220414 |
| Sensation HuntersDale Jordon is on her way to Panama with Trixie Snell and Her Hotcha Girls to be a cabaret singer at the Bull Ring Cafe. Traveling by ship, Dale meets and falls in love with Tom Baylor, who owns copper interests near Panama. Baylor i | 1933 | Charles Vidor | Drama | 5.8 (172 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Sleepers EastNA | 1934 | | Crime,Drama | | | Not Available |
| Wharf Angel"Mother Bright's" place on the lawless, waterfront district of the 'Barbary Coast' in San Francisco is the toughest of all saloons that can be found, and that is where "Turk", a stoker on a freighter named "The Coyote", and his shipm | 1934 | William Cameron Menzies, George Somnes | Drama | 6.5 (61 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Annie OakleyA romanticized biography of the famous sharpshooter. | 1935 | George Stevens | Biography,Drama,Western | 6.7 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Arizonian, TheClay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House. | 1935 | Charles Vidor | Drama,Western | 6.8 | 75 | 20260711 |
| Informer, TheIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in. | 1935 | John Ford | Crime,Drama | 7.4 (6.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Informer, TheNA | 1935 | | | | | Not Available |
| Last Days of Pompeii, TheIn the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity. | 1935 | Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper | Adventure,Drama | 6.4 (1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| A Night at the Biltmore BowlNA | 1935 | | Comedy,Mystery,Short | | | Not Available |
| People's Enemy, TheMoney was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? A | 1935 | Crane Wilbur | Action,Crime,Drama | 5.9 (45 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Strangers AllA mans son is shot and the man seeks revenge | 1935 | Charles Vidor | Drama | 5.9 (59 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| We're Only HumanA tough police Detective (Preston Foster), is determined to bring in a gangster, with the help of his newspaper reporter gal (Jane Wyatt). | 1935 | James Flood | Crime,Drama | 5.9 (123 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Love Before BreakfastA rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée. | 1936 | Walter Lang | Comedy,Romance | 6.3 (806 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Muss 'em UpA private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot. | 1936 | Charles Vidor | Action,Crime,Drama | 5.9 (189 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Plough and the Stars, TheA husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army. | 1936 | John Ford | Drama | 5.2 (559 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| We Who Are About to DieAn innocent man (John Beal) sits on death row in colorful company, as friends race to save his life. | 1936 | Christy Cabanne | Crime,Drama | 6.5 (238 votes) | 81 | 20240622 |
| First LadyAs presidential election time approaches in Washington it is the women behind the scenes who seem to be making the decisions. | 1937 | Stanley Logan | Comedy | 6.2 (457 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Outcasts of Poker Flat, TheA California mining camp is plagued by a series of murders. Four people come under suspicion for the killings and are swiftly run straight out of the camp. During a blizzard they take refuge in an isolated cabin, and conflicts bre... | 1937 | Christy Cabanne | Drama,Western | 5.9 (236 votes) | 67 | 20240625 |
| Sea DevilsNA | 1937 | | Action,Romance | | | Not Available |
| Westland Case, TheA detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside. | 1937 | Christy Cabanne | Action,Comedy,Crime | 6.3 (108 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Beat LoveNever one to turn down a dare, Jimmy Hughes--a wealthy but eccentric lawyer--takes his faithful butler Jasper and gets a job digging ditches to fulfill a bet he made with two reporters. In his new job he meets Trudy Olson, the daught | 1937 | Christy Cabanne | Comedy,Romance | 5.7 (228 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Army GirlA fight to keep cavalry horses from being replaced by tanks culminates in a great race between machine and beast. | 1938 | George Nichols Jr. | Action,Comedy,Drama | 5.6 (87 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Double DangerA crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable ""Konjer Diamonds"". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson. | 1938 | Lew Landers | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 5.7 | 60 | 20260912 |
| Everybody's Doing ItNA | 1938 | | Comedy,Crime,Romance | | | Not Available |
| Lady in the Morgue, TheA detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue. | 1938 | Otis Garrett | Action,Crime,Drama | 5.9 (186 votes) | 67 | 20240826 |
| The Last WarningNA | 1938 | | Mystery | | | Not Available |
| The StormNA | 1938 | | Action,Adventure,Drama | | | Not Available |
| Submarine PatrolA naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew. | 1938 | John Ford | Action,Adventure,Drama | 5.9 (234 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Up the RiverA group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs. | 1938 | Alfred L. Werker | Comedy,Romance | 5.9 | 75 | 20260711 |
| 20,000 Men a YearPilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year. | 1939 | Alfred E. Green | Action,Adventure,Drama | 6.4 (78 votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
| Chasing DangerWhen American newsreel cameraman stationed in Paris is sent to cover an Arab rebellion he finds a financier presumed dead but actually fomenting desert warfare. | 1939 | Ricardo Cortez | Action,Adventure | 6.4 (26 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| GeronimoThe army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son. | 1939 | Paul Sloane | Drama,Western | 5.8 (136 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Missing EvidenceA Government agent finds romance while investigating a fraudulent sweepstakes racket. | 1939 | Phil Rosen | Crime,Drama | 6.2 (65 votes) | 64 | 20240323 |
| News Is Made at NightNA | 1939 | | Action,Adventure,Comedy | | | Not Available |
| Society SmugglersThe Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds. | 1939 | Joe May | Action,Crime,Drama | 6.3 (33 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Cafe HostessJo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out of the dreary and sordid routine of entertaining customers - called drinking and dancing in 1940 - and, at a signal from piano playe | 1940 | Sidney Salkow | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.4 (64 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Moon Over BurmaThe managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon. | 1940 | Louis King | Adventure,Romance | 6.7 (71 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| North West Mounted PoliceIn 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government. | 1940 | Cecil B. DeMille | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Round Up, TheAt Janet Allen's wedding to Steve Payson, owner of the Sweetwater Cattle Ranch, Greg Lane, her former fiancé whom she thought dead and Steve's best friend, turns up. Greg disregards the fact she is now a married woman and tries to... | 1941 | Lesley Selander | Drama,Western | 6.1 (55 votes) | 90 | 20240826 |
| Unfinished BusinessSmall town girl meets and falls for a playboy type on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother, a mismatch which eventually grows into rea | 1941 | Gregory La Cava | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.4 (277 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| American EmpireRichard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses. | 1942 | William C. McGann | History,Western | 5.7 | 82 | 20260711 |
| Gentleman After Dark, AA greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife | 1942 | Edwin L. Marin | Adventure,Crime,Drama | 6.4 (102 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Little Tokyo, U.S.A.NA | 1942 | | Action,Crime,Drama | | | Not Available |
| Night in New OrleansThe police lieutenant Steve Abbott is engrossed in a baffling murder case. As Steve pieces the clues together, he comes to the sobering conclusion that his own wife Ethel Abbott may be intimately involved in the murder. It even gets | 1942 | William Clemens | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 5.8 (82 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Secret Agent of JapanKay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston Foster), the manager of this combination bar | 1942 | Irving Pichel | Mystery,Romance,Thriller | 6.9 (92 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the AirA veteran American flyer trains new recruits, including the acrophobic son of his dead war buddy. Complications arise when the younger man falls in love with his mentor's girl. | 1942 | William A. Wellman | Drama,Romance,War | 6.2 (463 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Guadalcanal DiaryConcentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII. | 1943 | Lewis Seiler | Drama,War | 6.6 | 93 | 20260912 |
| My Friend FlickaKen McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay. Ken's mother, Nell, manages to persuade his | 1943 | Harold D. Schuster | Action,Drama,Family | 6.5 (920 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Bermuda MysteryAlthough her uncle Frank's sudden death has been ruled the result of heart disease, Constance Martin attempts to re-open the case in a court in Bermuda, where Frank lived. Constance explains that she suspects foul play and describes | 1944 | Benjamin Stoloff | Mystery | 5.9 (67 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Roger Touhy, GangsterIn 1931, Captain Steven Warren, the chief investigator for the Chicago District Attorney's office, tries to arrest the henchmen of notorious gangster and bootlegger Roger Touhy for a series of crimes, but the frightened witnesses ref | 1944 | Robert Florey | Biography,Crime,Drama | 6.9 (63 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Thunderhead Son of FlickaA young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse. | 1945 | Louis King | Action,Drama,Family | 6.4 (347 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Twice BlessedStephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced seven years earlier. Each envies the lifestyle of the other; and they decide, without telling Jeff or Mary, to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder to do what the other person is expected to do, and that looking alike is not enough. When they find that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication begins when Alice, Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker, finds out the real story. | 1945 | Harry Beaumont | Comedy | 6.0 | 76 | 20260912 |
| Valley of Decision, TheAn Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters. | 1945 | Tay Garnett | Drama,Romance | 7.4 (2K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Harvey Girls, TheOn a train trip West to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women travelling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop. | 1946 | George Sidney | Comedy,Drama,History | 7.1 (4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Inside JobA pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store. | 1946 | Jean Yarbrough | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 5.7 (188 votes) | 65 | 20220414 |
| Strange TriangleA bank district supervisor relates how he has been accused of a murder involving the bank's vice-president's brother and his mysterious wife, who has long police record, and to which he intends to plead guilty. | 1946 | Ray McCarey | Adventure,Crime,Drama | 6.4 (125 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| TangierA war-weary newsman (Robert Paige) joins a Spanish dancer (Maria Montez) hunting down a Nazi puppet in North Africa. | 1946 | George Waggner | Adventure,Drama | 6.4 (109 votes) | 74 | 20220414 |
| King of the Wild HorsesNA | 1947 | | Drama,Western | | | Not Available |
| RamrodViolent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land. | 1947 | André De Toth | Action,Romance,Western | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Hunted, TheDespite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her. | 1948 | Jack Bernhard | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.5 (502 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| ThunderhoofTexas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few years earlier. The Kid falls in love with M | 1948 | Phil Karlson | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.7 (100 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Big Cat, The1933. A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, old fights and a cougar. He turns out to be pivotal in all of these. | 1949 | Phil Karlson | Action,Adventure,Drama | 5.5 (267 votes) | 75 | 20240625 |
| I Shot Jesse JamesBob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust. | 1949 | Samuel Fuller | Drama,Western | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Tougher They Come, TheLumberjack Joe MacKinley (Preston Foster) inherits a valuable tract of forestland which is coveted by a large lumber company. He and his new bride, Helen (Kay Buckley), start a logging operation but quickly run into trouble because o | 1950 | Ray Nazarro | Action,Adventure,Drama | 5.6 (33 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| The Big GusherNA | 1951 | | Adventure | | | Not Available |
| Big Night, TheA teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father. | 1951 | Joseph Losey | Drama,Film-Noir,Thriller | 6.3 (952 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Three Desperate MenNA | 1951 | | Drama,Western | | | Not Available |
| TomahawkIn 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty. | 1951 | George Sherman | Drama,Western | 6.4 (887 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Kansas City ConfidentialAn ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. | 1952 | Phil Karlson | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 7.4 (6.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Montana TerritoryJohn Malvin (Lon McCallister), prospecting the Montana territory during the gold rush, sees bandits kill a miner and his son. He eludes the outlaws by hiding near a stagecoach relay station run by ""Possum"" Enoch (Eddy Waller) and ... | 1952 | Ray Nazarro | Drama,Western | 6.1 (96 votes) | 0 | 20250322 |
| I, the JuryDectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman. | 1953 | Harry Essex | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.1 (404 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Law and OrderFrame Johnson already cleaned up Tombstone and hopes to settle down near Cottonwood. But a marshal's work is never done... | 1953 | Nathan Juran | Western | 6.0 (733 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| The Marshal's DaughterNA | 1953 | | Action,Comedy,Drama | | | Not Available |
| Destination 60, 000NA | 1957 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Man From Galveston, TheIn 1800s Texas, during the early days of circuit-courts, lawyers had to be handy with their guns as well as with their law books when facing lynch mobs bent on administering frontier justice. | 1963 | William Conrad | Western | 6.1 (120 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
| Time Travelers, TheIn 1964, a group of scientists create a portal that takes them to a barren, mutant inhabited, Earth in the year 2071. | 1964 | Ib Melchior | Sci-Fi | 5.1 (2.4K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| You've Got to Be SmartA slick conman finds a singing teenage preacher in a small town in Arkansas and brings him to Los Angeles, where he sets him up with his own show and waits for the money to come pouring in. | 1967 | Ellis Kadison | Comedy,Drama,Family | nan | 88 | 20211228 |
| ChubascoTwenty-year-old Chubasco chooses a difficult path of hard labor at sea aboard a fishing boat and learns about how to become a man in the process. | 1968 | Allen H. Miner | Adventure,Drama | 5.4 (205 votes) | 100 | 20240306 |
| Pusher-in-the-FaceNA | 1929 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
| Just Around the CornerNA | 1933 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
| The Bogus GreenNA | 1951 | | Crime,Drama | | | Not Available |
| It's Your AmericaNA | 1946 | | Drama,Short,War | | | Not Available |