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  • Zulu
  • Zulu review by from Plymouth, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars They don't make 'em like this anymore! 21 May 2004
    ...s. Signs of future greatness from Michael Caine and sterling performances from Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins mean that this is not going to be bettered for some time. A m...   Read customer review
  • Hell Drivers
  • Hell Drivers review by from KEYWORTH
    Rated - 5.0 stars 5 March 2004
    ...st a film for lorry 'anoraks'! The plot could have been written for a western. Stanley Baker plays 'Ted', an ex-con who's looking for work which he finds at 'Haulets' haula...   Read customer review
  • Helen of Troy
  • Helen of Troy review by from STOURBRIDGE
    Rated - 3.0 stars 11 October 2004
    ...dubbing I can remember (Paris and Helen speak with cultured English accents). Stanley Baker makes an excellent, arrogant Achilles. Be patient during the somewhat wordy pr...   Read customer review

Stanley Baker - filmography


  • A Lizard In A Woman's Skin on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Georges Rigaud,  Penny Brown
    Director: Lucio Fulci
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This cult movie classic, known in the US as SCHIZOID is a psychodrama murder mystery thriller (or giallo) involving LSD, psychoanalysis, lesbianism, and having at least one extremely gory dream sequence which involves eviscerated dogs: director Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, THE BEYOND) and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 315 members
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  • The Last Grenade (1970)
    Starring: Richard Attenborough,  Alex Cord,  Honor Blackman
    Director: Gordon Flemyng
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Gun for hire Maj. Harry Grigsby is ordered to head to Hong Kong to take out Kip Thompson, who has been causing border incidents with China. But Harry also has a score to settle with Kip, who betrayed Harry and his trrops in the Congo when he defected to the other side.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Robbery on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Joanna Pettet,  James Booth
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Paul Clifton has assembled a team of highly skilled thieves and plans a daring heist with intricate precision. Although a preliminary robbery to raise funds ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 376 members
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  • Accident (1967)
    Starring: Dirk Bogarde,  Stanley Baker,  Jacqueline Sassard
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 546 members
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  • Zulu on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Jack Hawkins,  Ulla Jacobsson
    Director: Cyril Endfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 13,701 members
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  • Zulu - Blu-ray (1964)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Jack Hawkins,  Ulla Jacobsson
    Director: Cyril Endfield
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Narrated by Richard Burton and starring an outstanding Michael Caine in his first starring role, ZULU is a tense and dramatic war film about the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879--which was part of the Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa--where approximately 150 British soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 1,596 member
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  • Prize Of Arms on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Tom Bell,  Patrick Magee
    Director: Cliff Owen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Never in the history of crime was so much taken from so many by so few. A gang of criminals acquire an old army truck and try to pass themselves off as military policemen. Their plan is to steal a £250,000 payroll intended for soldiers in the Middle East. Turpin recruits Fenner and Swavek to make ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 201 members
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  • The Guns Of Navarone on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Gregory Peck,  David Niven,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: J. Lee Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,325 members
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  • Yesterday's Enemy on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Gordon Jackson,  Leo McKern,  Stanley Baker
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    BAFTA-nominated Hammer film, in which, cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite protestations from a padre and a war correspondent (Leo McKern), Langford orders that two innocent ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 101 members
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  • Hell Is A City (1959)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  John Crawford,  Billie Whitelaw
    Director: Val Guest
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Detective Inspector Martineau prepares himself for action when he hears of the jailbreak of the notorious thief Don Starling. When a robbery goes seriously wrong, Martineau will stop at nothing to make sure that Starling is caught...
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 366 members
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  • Blind Date on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Hardy Kruger,  Stanley Baker,  Micheline Presle
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty Dutch artist, Jan Van Rooyen (Hardy Kruger), caught in an upscale cottage where a woman lies murdered. Hard-nosed, irritable Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) is certain Van ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 41 members
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  • Sea Fury (1958)
    Starring: Victor McLaglen,  Stanley Baker,  Luciana Paluzzi
    Director: Cy Raker Endfield
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Victor McLaglen made his last film appearance in SEA FURY. McLaglen plays the brawny captain of a salvage vessel, while Stanley Baker is his second in command. The two men battle over the affections of South American beauty Luciana Paluzzi. Baker has the advantage, but Luciana's father disapproves.
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 16th April 2012
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  • Checkpoint (1957)
    Starring: Odile Versois,  Anthony Steel,  Stanley Baker
    Director: Ralph Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Filmed in Italy, this pulse-pounding race-car melodrama stars Anthony Steel as ambitious driver Bill Fraser. Stanley Baker costars as O'Donovan, the purchasing agent for unscrupulous auto magnate Warren Ingram (James Robertson Justice). O'Donovan has no reservations about resorting to murder to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
    Due for release on 16th April 2012
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  • Helen of Troy on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Rossana Podesta,  Cedric Hardwicke,  Niall MacGinnis
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A lavishly filmed epic about the Trojan War based on Homer's ILIAD, Robert Wise's HELEN OF TROY depicts the tale of the famed Helen (Rossana Podesta), the woman responsible for the battle. Young Trojan prince Paris (Jacques Sernas) journeys to Sparta, hoping to bring home a peace treaty that will ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 295 members
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  • Alexander The Great on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Claire Bloom,  Barry Jones
    Director: Robert Rossen
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 538 members
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  • The Red Beret on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Alan Ladd,  Leo Genn,  Harry Andrews
    Director: Terence Young
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ladd stars as an American Army officer who resigns his commission after ordering a fellow officer to jump from a plane which is about to crash. Ladd manages to land the plane safely, but his friend dies when his chute fails to open. Determined to avoid life-or-death decisions, Ladd enlists in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 14 members
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  • The Cruel Sea on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Jack Hawkins,  Stanley Baker,  Denholm Elliott
    Director: Charles Frend
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,448 members
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  • Undercover on DVD (1943)
    Starring: John Clements,  Godfrey Tearle,  Tom Walls
    Director: Sergei Nolbandov
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Written by British screenwriting legend Jon Dighton (Roman Holiday, Kind Hearts And Coronets, The Man In The White Suit), Undercover stars John Clements (The Mind Benders, The Four Feathers, Things To Come), Godfrey Tearle (The Titfield Thunderbolt, Mandy, The 39 Steps), Tom Walls (Johnny Frenchman,..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 42 members
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  • Helen Mirren At The BBC (6 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Stanley Baker,  Brian Cox
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set Comprises: 1. The Changling (1974) 2. The Apple Cart (1975) 3. Caesar & Claretta (1975) 4. The Philanthropist (1975) 5. The Little Minister (1975) 6. The Country Wife (1977) 7. Blue Remembered Hill (1979) 8. Mrd Reinhardt (1981) 9. A Midsummer Nights Dream (1981) 10. Cymbeline (1983) 11. The ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 118 members
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Stanley Baker facts

5 most recent films

How Green Was My Valley - 3.5 stars
A Lizard In A Woman's Skin - 3.0 stars
The Last Grenade - 3.0 stars
Robbery - 3.5 stars
Accident - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Zulu - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Zulu - 3.5 stars
The Cruel Sea - 3.5 stars
The Guns Of Navarone - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Checkpoint - 3 stars
Sea Fury - 3 stars
Undercover - 2.5 stars
Lilli Marlene - 2.5 stars
Violent Playground - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dirk Bogarde - 5 times - show films
Jack Hawkins - 5 times - show films
James Booth - 4 times - show films
Michael York - 3 times - show films
Ulla Jacobsson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 7 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 5 times - show films
Cyril Endfield - 3 times - show films
Ralph Thomas - 3 times - show films
Lucio Fulci - 2 times - show films