Movies starring Warren Oates

Ride the High Country (1962)

94 mins     Drama, Romance, Western      

There has been plenty written about "Ride the High Country" or "Guns in the Afternoon" as it is also known. It's a Sam Peckinpah movie, his homage to westerns and the passing of the old west into a new are just some of the el...

Major Dundee (1965)

123 mins     Western      

It's worth knowing that the "Major Dundee" production had its problems, not just because director Peckinpah was hard to work with but the studio basically moving the goal posts. They cut the budget and reduced the shooting sc...

Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966)

95 mins     Western      

In "Return of the Magnificent Seven" Yul Brynner reprises his role as gun man Chris who is asked to help out a small village when the men are taken by Lorca (Emilio Fernandez) a bandit. Recruiting a new gang of seven men, the...

The Battleground (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

So to state the facts quickly; "The Battleground" is actually episode four of "Cimarron Strip" the 60s series which starred Stuart Whitman as lawman Marshal Jim Crown. Now usually I say that these episodes work as stand alone...

Nobody (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

Episode 12 of "Cimarron Strip", the half way mark although considering the episodes were not produced in the order they were shown makes that misleading with "Nobody" actually being the 15th episode produced. Anyway "Nobody" ...

The Wild Bunch (1969)

139 mins     Western      

The western genre often comes under a lot of stick for being cheesy and mass produced especially westerns from the 50s and 60s and to be honest there was a lot of b-movie westerns. But in amongst the masses of westerns there ...

The Hired Hand (1971)

90 mins     Drama, Western      

Is cinema purely a form of entertainment or is it also a form of art? Whilst I have no objection to those who delight in the artistic nature of cinema for me personally I see it as a form of entertainment first. The question ...

Badlands (1973)

94 mins     Crime, Drama      

Terrence Malick's "Badlands" is the sort of movie which has some reviewers using words such as opus, symphony and a lot of other words which sound fancy. Now I am not saying those reviewers are wrong, each to their own and if...

Race with the Devil (1975)

88 mins     Action , Horror, Thriller      

Anyone who knows their movies will know that Peter Fonda is the king of the b-movie or at least if you see Fonda's name on something from the 70s you can be pretty sure it is a b-movie. But b-movies can be entertaining and "R...

True Grit (1978)

100 mins     TV Movie, Western      

So first things first and this 1978 movie called "True Grit" is not a remake but as the alternative title of "True Grit: A Further Adventure" says is just a further adventure. So ignoring the specifics of a change of actors w...

1941 (1979)

118 mins     Action , Comedy, War      

Do you know what the problem with Steven Spielberg's "1941" is, it is public expectations especially those of 1979 as this wasn't a movie with a story it was a parody, it was a forerunner to "Airplane" with lots of daft gags ...

Stripes (1981)

106 mins     Comedy      

For those who fell in love with the smart-ass humour of Bill Murray in "Ghostbusters" and "Caddyshack" then "Stripes" is a must watch. It again sees Murray excelling when it comes to flippant remarks and sees him partner up w...

Blue Thunder (1983)

109 mins     Action , Crime, Drama      

Back in the 80s there were two TV shows about flashy helicopters, they both arrived in 1984 one was called "Blue Thunder" the other "Airwolf" and I was an "Airwolf" fan as it was much cooler. Ironically a few years after the ...

Mail Order Bride (2008)

88 mins     Romance, TV Movie, Western      

Movie Review - Mail Order Bride (2008) Daphne Zuniga stars as Diana McQueen, a con artist, who to get away from her despicable partner, Tom (Greg Evigan), takes the place of her dying friend to be a mail order bride to ranche...