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  • Drum
  • Drum review by from London, England
    Rated - 2.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Hired Hand
  • Hired Hand review by from London, England
    Rated - 5.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Race With the Devil
  • Race With the Devil review by A customer from Harrogate
    Rated - 4.0 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. ...   Read customer review

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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,157 member
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  • Blue Thunder - Blu-ray (1983)
    Starring: Roy Scheider,  Warren Oates,  Candy Clark
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 344 members
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  • The Border on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Elpidia Carrillo,  Harvey Keitel,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 322 members
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  • Stripes on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Harold Ramis,  Warren Oates
    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...
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,745 members
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  • East Of Eden (3 discs) on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jane Seymour,  Warren Oates,  Timothy Bottoms
    Director: Harvey Hart
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck considered East of Eden his quintessential novel. At more than six hours, this sumptuous 1981 production brings Steinbeck s bestseller to the screen more fully and faithfully than any other adaptation. Sweeping from Connecticut to California and from the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 48 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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 180 members
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  • Race With the Devil on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Peter Fonda,  Warren Oates,  Loretta Swit
    Director: Jack Starrett
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 420 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.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 20 members
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  • Kid Blue (1973)
    Starring: Dennis Hopper,  Warren Oates,  Peter Boyle
    Director: James Frawley
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 7,987 members
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  • Dillinger on DVD (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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 349 members
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  • Hired Hand 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 427 members
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  • Two-Lane Blacktop - Blu-ray (1971)
    Starring: James Taylor,  Warren Oates,  Laurie Bird
    Director: Monte Hellman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cult film director Monte Hellman follows up his legendary westerns THE SHOOTING and RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND with another sterling film, this time set on the paved highways of early 1970s America. Making their acting debuts, musicians Dennis Wilson and James Taylor play a pair of drag-racing drifters ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 15 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 nails, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 68 members
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  • The Wild Bunch on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Strother Martin,  Emilio Fernandez,  Edmund O'Brien
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6,985 members
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  • In the Heat of the Night on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Rod Steiger,  Warren Oates
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his racial prejudices. When Virgil Tibbs (Sidney ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 5,858 members
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  • Cimarron Strip - E12 - Nobody (1967)
    Starring: Stuart Whitman,  Percy Herbert,  Randy Boone
    Director: Boris Sagal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ole Mobeetie's back in Cimarron! When getting himself a new job, this rabble-rousing wild man celebrates his accomplishment by riding his horse through the window of the Wayfarers Inn. After being arrested and jailed by Marshal Crown, he eventually loses his job. Upon being let out jail, Mobeetie ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • The Shooting on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Warren Oates,  Will Hutchins
    Director: Monte Hellman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    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.
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 255 members
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  • Major Dundee on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Charlton Heston,  Richard Harris,  James Coburn
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Tense and fascinating study of the moods and hates that split America during the Civil War. A U.S. Cavalry officer leads a makeshift army against Apaches. Spectacular and bloodthirsty battle climax.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 389 members
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Warren Oates facts

5 most recent films

Blue Thunder - 3.0 stars
Blue Thunder - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Border - 3.0 stars
Stripes - 3.5 stars
East Of Eden - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
In the Heat of the Night - 3.5 stars
The Wild Bunch - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Wild Bunch - 3.5 stars
Badlands - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Kid Blue - 3 stars
The Battleground - 1.5 stars
The Brink's Job - 2.5 stars
Cockfighter - 3.0 stars
East Of Eden - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Rod Taylor - 6 times - show films
Kevin McCarthy - 6 times - show films
Roddy McDowall - 6 times - show films
Doug McClure - 6 times - show films
Burgess Meredith - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Douglas Heyes - 6 times - show films
Monte Hellman - 6 times - show films
Sam Peckinpah - 4 times - show films
Harvey Hart - 4 times - show films
Peter Fonda - 3 times - show films