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Warren Oates
1) Badlands
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the 50's killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
3) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree. Based loosely on the 50's killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
4) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
5) Tom Sawyer
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's boy hero enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 414
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drag-racing drifters battle across the backroads of America for possession of each other's cars and the affections of a mysterious young hitchhiker.
7) Blue Thunder
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.
8) Stripes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The outrageous antics of two enlisted men.
10) The shooting
Publisher
Madacy Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
When an ex-bounty hunter returns home to tend to his family's mining business, he finds his brother and friends missing or dead and goes on a journey to find revenge.
11) The hired hand
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Harry, Arch and Dan head into Del Norte, a small town in the middle of nowhere. Harry decides to return home after a seven-year absence, but not before Dan runs afoul of a group of unsavory characters and Harry vows vengeance for the lad's death. Harry and Arch flee from the town. Harry's wife, Hannah is none too pleased to see her wayward husband at her doorstep. Taking his wife's anger in stride, he asks only to be allowed to work as a hired hand....
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
Series
Criterion collection volume 959
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
17) The wild bunch
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The violence of the West in the time just before World War I is shown in this story of men who lived during the Mexican Revolution and were now trying to survive in a changing world.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.