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  • Drum
  • Drum review by Kris Schroder from London, England
    Rated - 2 stars tough call 10 March 2005
    ...l amount of nudity, etc. The one plus point, of course, is the always watchable Warren Oates as a kind-hearted Slave Trader. Other than that, its more shocking than enterta...  
  • Hired Hand
  • Hired Hand review by Jas Sidhu from London, England
    Rated - 5 stars Beautiful film 14 March 2005
    ... hallucinatory photography and subtle, restrained performances. The late, great Warren Oates is simply awesome. No need to go into the plot...just sit back and enjoy thi...  
  • Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
  • Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia review by Mike Golding from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    Rated - 4 stars A Flawed Classic 7 August 2005
    ... 1974, the year the film was made. However, the story really concerns Benny (Warren Oates), a down at heel bartender/piano player who serves up tequila and sings Guatala...  

Warren Oates - filmography


  • Blue Thunder on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Roy Scheider,  Warren Oates,  Malcolm McDowell
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: 15
    The air above Los Angeles has become a battle ground in this explosive action thriller. Roy Scheider (JAWS) stars as Frank Murphy, a courageous and honorable Los Angeles police officer who is chosen to test run Blue Thunder, a high-tech experimental attack helicopter that comes complete with ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 67% from 253 members
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  • Stripes on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Harold Ramis,  John Candy
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: 15
    John Winger is having a bad day: not only has he lost his job, his car has been repossessed, he's been evicted and his girlfriend has left him. In despair, he and his hapless best friend Russell decide to join the US Army...
    Rate this: 3.5 67% from 690 members
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  • Drum on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Isela Vega,  Ken Norton
    Director: Steve Carver
    Certificate: 18
    A sequel to MANDINGO, in 1860s New Orleans. A passionate and provocative drama set in the American south in the decade prior to the Civil War. Warren Oates plays the negro slave in a bordello house who must endure all manner of sexual indignities.
    Rate this: 2.5 46% from 134 members
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  • Cockfighter (1974)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Richard B. Shull,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Monte Hellman
    Certificate: TBC
    Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. After shooting his mouth off one too many times then losing a champion rooster in a casual hotel room cockfight, he swore never to speak again until he's won that award.
    Rate this: 3.0 56% from 16 members
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  • Dillinger (1973)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Ben Johnson,  Michelle Phillips
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: 15
    The first feature film from man's man director Milius is a violent, hard-hitting account of Public Enemy #1, John Dillinger. The last half of his criminal career is dramatically retold until his notorious finale outside the Biograph Theatre.
    Rate this: 4.5 90% from 4 members
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  • Badlands on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Martin Sheen,  Sissy Spacek,  Ramon Bieri
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: 18
    Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are Kit and Holly in this incredible debut feature film from elusive writer/director Terrence Malick. South Dakota, 1959. Kit and Holly are adrift in a double fantasy of crime and punishment, a headlong flight from nowhere, to nowhere. They're playing make-believe but ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 1,384 members
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  • Dillinger (1973)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Ben Johnson,  Michelle Phillips
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: TBC
    After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 62% from 19 members
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  • Hired Hand (2 discs) on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Warren Oates,  Verna Bloom
    Director: Peter Fonda
    Certificate: 15
    Peter Fonda's superb yet little-seen directorial debut subverts the machismo of the Western genre with a quiet, understated tale of relationships and loyalty in the Wild West. Fonda stars as Harry Collings, a drifter who has been roaming from town to town with his close friend and fellow wanderer ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 328 members
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  • The Wild Bunch (2 discs) on DVD (1969)
    Starring: William Holden,  Robert Ryan,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: 18
    As a counterpoint to the heroic horde of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, the ageing gunmen of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece break the very laws of honour which bind them in this bloody and meditative tale of the American West--widely considered to be the self-conscious nail in the coffin of the genre. William ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 74% from 1,450 members
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  • The Shooting on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Warren Oates,  Will Hutchins
    Director: Monte Hellman
    Certificate: PG
    A mysterious woman persuades two cowboys to help her in a revenge scheme in this strking low budget Western from director Monte Hellman. A companion piece to Ride In The Whirlwind.
    Rate this: 3.0 56% from 142 members
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Warren Oates - downloads


  • Race With the Devil for Download (1975)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Warren Oates,  Loretta Swit
    Director: Jack Starrett
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
    Buy from: £5.99
    Run time: 88 minutes
    For old friends Roger (Peter Fonda) and Frank (Warren Oates) and their wives (Lara Parker and Loretta Swit), it was supposed to be "the best damn vacation they ever had." But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a Satanic orgy and brutal ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 2 members
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Warren Oates facts

5 most recent films


Blue Thunder - 3.0 stars
Stripes - 3.5 stars
The Brink's Job - 3.0 stars
Drum - 2.5 stars
Race With the Devil - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


In The Heat Of The Night - 3.5 stars
Badlands - 3.5 stars
The Wild Bunch - 3.5 stars
Stripes - 3.5 stars
Two-Lane Blacktop - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


The Brink's Job - 3.0 stars
Cockfighter - 3.0 stars
Wild Bunch, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Dillinger - 3.0 stars
Dillinger - 4.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Ben Johnson - 4 times - show films
Harry Dean Stanton - 3 times - show films
Peter Fonda - 3 times - show films
Emilio Fernandez - 2 times - show films
Robert Ryan - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Sam Peckinpah - 4 times - show films
Monte Hellman - 3 times - show films
Jack Starrett - 2 times - show films
John Milius - 2 times - show films
William Friedkin - 1 times - show films