The best Preston Foster’s action movies

Preston Foster

Preston Foster

24/08/1900- 14/07/1970
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Guadalcanal Diary

Guadalcanal Diary
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1943
  • Character: Father Donnelly
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Law and Order

Law and Order
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 13/05/1953
  • Character: Kurt Durling
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.

Army Girl

Army Girl
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 11/08/1938
  • Character: Capt. Dike Conger
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.

The Storm

The Storm
6.3/10
A passenger ship unexpectedly runs into a typhoon.

Heat Lightning

Heat Lightning
7.1/10
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

20,000 Men a Year

20,000 Men a Year
6.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 26/10/1939
  • Character: Jim Howell
Pilot 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.

Sea Devils

Sea Devils
5.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 19/02/1937
  • Character: Michael 'Mike' O'Shea
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.

Corruption

Corruption
5.6/10
A 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.

My Friend Flicka

My Friend Flicka
6.5/10
Ken McLaughlin (Roddy McDowall) is a precocious 10-year-old who lives with his family on a remote Wyoming ranch. When Ken returns home from school with failing grades, his father, Rob (Preston Foster), blames the boy's lack of personal responsibility. At the suggestion of his wife, Nell (Rita Johnson), Rob allows Ken to choose a single colt from the herd to raise as his own. Much to his father's dismay, Ken chooses a fiery mustang filly -- but the two soon become fast friends.

The Tougher They Come

The Tougher They Come
5.7/10
Set in a rugged Northwest logging camp, this drama follows the exploits of the lumberjack who inherits the camp. For a long time, he has been courting a pretty young thing, and now that she believes him wealthy, she decides to finally accept his proposal. When she finds out that the company has many financial woes and that living in the woods takes guts and courage, she turns into a nagging shrew, constantly urging him to sell-out to a major corporation. Meanwhile his treacherous foreman, an agent of the bigger company, uses sabotage to change the stubborn camp owner's mind.

News Is Made at Night

News Is Made at Night
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 20/07/1939
  • Character: Steve Drum
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

The Big Cat

The Big Cat
5.5/10
1933. 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.

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