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  • Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series
  • Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series review by from Brighton, England
    Rated - 5 stars One of the best drama series from the BBC 31 August 2005
    ... beautiful Joanne Whalley into the limelight), and joined by the ever watchable Joe Don Baker. I hadn't watched this since it first aired in the eighties and I was please...  
  • Junior Bonner
  • Junior Bonner review by from Andover, Hampshire England
    Rated - 4 stars Bonner Boys bump Broncos and Bulls 19 January 2009
    ...Elvira (Ida Lupino) lives in town in modest comfort, whilst his brother Curley (Joe Don Baker) and his family are doing well selling mobile homes. The film shows how the ...  
  • Charley Varrick
  • Charley Varrick review by A customer from Hanwell
    Rated - 4 stars My daddy was a bank robber... 10 December 2008
    ... the viewer that things necessarily have to turn out well for the protagonists. Joe Don Baker is great, unsettling and physically intimidating, dominating every scene he's i...  

Joe Don Baker - filmography


  • Mars Attacks on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Glenn Close,  Annette Bening
    Director: Tim Burton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly "..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 9,973 members
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  • Panther (1995)
    Starring: Ralph Ahn,  Joe Don Baker,  Angela Bassett
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 7 members
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  • Congo on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Dylan Walsh,  Laura Linney,  Ernie Hudson
    Director: Frank Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An African mountain gorilla who's been taught sign language by a young primatologist is returned to the jungles of the Congo in this adaptation of Michael Crichton's 1980 sci-fi adventure novel. During their journey they cross paths with greedy corporate scavengers searching for a hidden cache of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 4,037 members
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  • GoldenEye on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Sean Bean,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Martin Campbell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Armed with his license to kill, James Bond (Agent 007) races to Russia in search of the stolen access codes for GoldenEye, an awesome space weapon that can fire a devastating electromagnetic pulse toward the Earth. However, Bond is up against an enemy who anticipates his every move: Alec Trevelyan, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 22,651 members
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  • Ring Of Steel on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Carol Alt,  Robert Chapin
    Director: David Frost
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An accidental killing changes Olympic hopeful Alex Freyers' life after he wins a duel and is showered with money and seduction from the club's manager. Unaware of the deadly stakes, he discovers the club's dark secret and becomes entangled into a savage web where he is forced to confront the ring's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 36% from 34 members
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  • Reality Bites on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Winona Ryder,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ben Stiller made his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers. It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,948 members
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  • Cape Fear on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte,  Jessica Lange
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 14,722 members
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  • The Living Daylights on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Timothy Dalton,  Maryam d'Abo,  Jeroen Krabbe
    Director: John Glen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this installment of the James Bond series, Agent 007 (Timothy Dalton) is assigned to protect a Russian defector (Maryam d'Abo) from the KGB. When the defection proves to be an elaborate ploy, Bond woos her anyway, and together they follow a trail to a crooked American arms dealer supplying ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,763 members
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  • Final Justice (1985)
    Starring: Rossano Brazzi,  Joe Don Baker
    Director: Greydon Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Joe Don Baker plays Geronimo, a slick South Texas sheriff who has a way with a gun. When two powerful Mafia brothers set up shop in his town, Geronimo is forced into several risky battles to get rid of them.
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 15% from 2 members
    Due for release on 18th January 2010
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  • Fletch on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Chevy Chase,  Tim Matheson,  Joe Don Baker
    Director: Michael Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Loosely based on the book by Gregory McDonald, director Michael Ritchie's FLETCH is a laugh-out-loud comedy that features a classic performance by Chevy Chase, who stars as Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a crack investigative journalist who goes undercover for a story about possible connections between ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,670 members
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  • Wacko on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Stella Stevens,  George Kennedy
    Director: Greydon Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This insane comedy combines the most memorable scenes from "Grease," "The Exorcist," "Alien," and "Saturday Night Fever" with a cast of lovely young ladies. It's wild comedy at its funniest.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 130 members
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  • Charley Varrick on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Walter Matthau,  Joe Don Baker,  Felicia Farr
    Director: Don Siegel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very large amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 593 members
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  • Junior Bonner on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Steve McQueen,  Robert Preston,  Ida Lupino
    Director: Sam Peckinpah
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Sam Peckinpah's JUNIOR BONNER, Steve McQueen is the title character, an aging rodeo champ who returns to his home town to participate in the annual rodeo. He finds his family estranged, does what he can to help, and then moves on...after some good rodeo riding and a few brawls.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 299 members
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  • Cool Hand Luke on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  George Kennedy,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose cool defiance of the sadistic warden and bullying inmates earns him the title Cool Hand Luke. But as ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 6,258 members
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Joe Don Baker - watch online


  • Framed to Watch Now (1975)
    Starring: Joe Don Baker,  Conny Van Dyke,  Gabriel Dell
    Director: Phil Karlson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 106 minutes
    The makers of the highly successful Walking Tall are reunited. They are again fighting for justice as Joe Don Baker is framed for a crime he never committed. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargaining and four years behind bars. When he's released, all hell breaks loose as Baker begins ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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Joe Don Baker facts

5 most recent films

Strange Wilderness - 2.5 stars
The Grass Harp - 2.5 stars
Mars Attacks - 3.0 stars
Panther - 4.0 stars
Congo - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cool Hand Luke - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Cool Hand Luke - 4.0 stars
Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series - 3.5 stars
GoldenEye - 3.5 stars
Cape Fear - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Final Justice - 1.0 stars
Curse Of The Demon Mountain aka The Shadow of Chikara - 1.5 stars
Citizen Cohn - 2.0 stars
Ring Of Steel - 2.0 stars
Complex Of Fear - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Desmond Llewelyn - 6 times - show films
Pierce Brosnan - 4 times - show films
Jeroen Krabbe - 3 times - show films
Judi Dench - 3 times - show films
Izabella Scorupco - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Martin Campbell - 4 times - show films
John Glen - 3 times - show films
Greydon Clark - 2 times - show films
Stuart Rosenberg - 2 times - show films
Phil Karlson - 2 times - show films