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  • Drum
  • Drum review by 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 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...  
  • Race With the Devil
  • Race With the Devil review by A customer from Harrogate
    Rated - 4 stars Genuinely Unsettling 13 July 2008
    ... as is the not entirely unexpected but still effective ending. As you'd expect, Warren Oates gives a wonderful performance and Peter Fonda is surprisingly good too. ...  

Warren Oates - filmography


  • Blue Thunder on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Roy Scheider,  Warren Oates,  Malcolm McDowell
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 63% from 1,016 member
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  • Stripes on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Harold Ramis,  John Candy
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 67% from 2,242 members
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  • Drum on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Isela Vega,  Ken Norton
    Director: Steve Carver
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 46% from 150 members
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  • Cockfighter (1974)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Richard B. Shull,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Monte Hellman
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 57% from 14 members
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  • Badlands on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Martin Sheen,  Sissy Spacek,  Ramon Bieri
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 69% from 6,296 members
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  • Dillinger (1973)
    Starring: Warren Oates,  Ben Johnson,  Michelle Phillips
    Director: John Milius
    Certificate: 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: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 32 members
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  • Hired Hand (2 discs) on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Warren Oates,  Verna Bloom
    Director: Peter Fonda
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 59% from 373 members
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  • Barquero on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Lee Van Cleef,  Warren Oates,  Kerwin Mathews
    Director: Gordon Douglas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A ruthless gang of thuggish outlaws butcher the settlers of a small Colorado town taking with them anything they can get their hands on. Leaving a bloody trail of death behind them, they head for the Mexican Border. Their only obstacles are a notoriously lethal river and mysterious, hard as ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 25 members
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  • The Wild Bunch on DVD (1969)
    Starring: William Holden,  Robert Ryan,  Ernest Borgnine
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 70% from 6,079 members
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  • The Shooting on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Warren Oates,  Will Hutchins
    Director: Monte Hellman
    Certificate: 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 stars out of 5 57% from 185 members
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  • The Border on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Elpidia Carrillo,  Harvey Keitel,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Possibly the closest that Jack Nicholson has ever come to playing an old-fashioned hero was the role of Charlie Smith, in a film whose writers had worked on 'The Wild Bunch' and 'The Deer Hunter'. A U.S. border patrol guard who's disenchanted with his work, Charlie, accedes to his wife, Marcy's, ..read more »
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Warren Oates facts

5 most recent films

Blue Thunder - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
Blue Thunder - 3.0 stars
Stripes - 3.5 stars
The Brink's Job - 2.5 stars
Drum - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

In The Heat Of The Night - 3.5 stars
Wild Bunch, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
The Wild Bunch - 3.5 stars
Badlands - 3.5 stars
Stripes - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Battleground - 0.5 stars
The Brink's Job - 2.5 stars
Cockfighter - 3.0 stars
Dillinger - 3.5 stars
Barquero - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Fonda - 4 times - show films
Verna Bloom - 3 times - show films
Ted Markland - 3 times - show films
Ben Johnson - 3 times - show films
Robert Pratt - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sam Peckinpah - 4 times - show films
Monte Hellman - 3 times - show films
Peter Fonda - 3 times - show films
John Badham - 2 times - show films
Norman Jewison - 1 times - show films