There Was a Crooked Man… (1970)
Comedy | Western
A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
An American bar room pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Starring: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández
Director: Sam Peckinpah
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson
Director: Norman Jewison
Dillinger (1973)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama
John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.
Starring: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Geoffrey Lewis
Director: John Milius
Private Property (1960)
Crime | Drama
Duke and Boots, two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station owner. Duke, viral and savage, taunts the slower and psychologically-confused Boots because he has never made a sexual conquest. Duke offers to seduce a woman for Boots and the pair force a passing motorist to pursue a sports car driven by Ann Carlyle, the lustful wife of a insurance-company executive who has some desires of her own not being met by her husband.
Starring: Corey Allen, Warren Oates, Robert Ward, Jerome Cowan, Kate Manx
Director: Leslie Stevens
The Border (1982)
Crime | Drama
A corrupt border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates
Director: Tony Richardson
Badlands (1973)
Crime | Drama
A garbage collector (Martin Sheen) and his impressionable girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) kill her father when he disapproves of their relationship, and embark on a homicidal trail of destruction across the Midwestern United States. Based on the true case of 1950s killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, John Carter
Director: Terrence Malick
Return of the Seven / Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966)
Western
When one of their own is taken and forced into slave-farming by a Mexican crime lord, the remaining members of the "Seven" set out on a mission to rescue him.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Elisa Montés, Emilio Fernández
Director: Burt Kennedy
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Drama
The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They are totally dedicated to The Car and converse with each other only when necessary. At a gas station, The Driver and The Mechanic, along with a girl who has ingratiated herself into their world, meet G.T.O., a middle-aged man who fabricates stories about his exploits. It is decided to have a race to Washington, D.C., where the winner will get the loser's car. Along the way, the race and the highway metaphorically depict the lives of these contestants as they struggle to their destination.
Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: Monte Hellman
