Movies with Stanley Baker
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Innocent Bystanders
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Ferdy Mayne, Warren Mitchell, Sue Lloyd, Stanley Baker, J.G. Devlin, Derren Nesbitt
Directors: Peter Collinson
Country: UK
Year: 1972
Available Quality: Hi Def
This one came in kind of late in that period of all the 007-imitation movies. Some of them were terrible, like "Operation Kid Brother" (which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil!). And some were pretty good, like "Innocent Bystanders". It is well-directed and its cinematography is excellent. Its rapid editing is really neat at first, but it gets kind of annoying after a while. Baker is excellent as a cold-blooded agent who has been double-crossed by his own people. I was amused by the constant bickering of Baker's two rival agents. "Innocent Bystanders" also has a couple alumni from the 007 movies: Donald Pleasence from "You Only Live Twice" ...
Zorro
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Starring: Adriana Asti, Stanley Baker, Giampiero Albertini, Moustache, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Alain Delon, Marino Masé
Directors: Duccio Tessari
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1975
Available Quality: Hi Def
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
The Guns of Navarone
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, James Robertson Justice, Irene Papas, Percy Herbert, Gregory Peck, David Niven
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1961
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
Helen of Troy (1955)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Marc Lawrence, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Douglas
Directors: Robert Wise
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1956
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Sands of the Kalahari
Genres: Adventure
Starring: Susannah York, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Barry Lowe
Directors: Cy Endfield
Country: UK
Year: 1965
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A small plane crashes in the sweltering deserts of South Africa hundreds of miles from civilization. As parallels are drawn between the group of humans and a nearby pack of savage baboons, one of the men's survivalist nature gets the better of him, as he decides his chances of survival would be better if the others were eliminated one-by-one.
Yesterday's Enemy
Genres: Drama, War
Starring: Leo McKern, Percy Herbert, Stanley Baker, Bryan Forbes, David Lodge, Gordon Jackson, Richard Pasco
Directors: Val Guest
Country: UK
Year: 1959
Cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker)and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite the protests of an elderly padre (Guy Rolfe) and of war correspondent Max Anderson (Leo McKern), Langford orders Sergeant McKenzie (Gordon Jackson) to shoot two innocent villagers, thereby "persuading" a Japanese informer to surrender vital information. When the Japanese recapture the village, their commander uses Langford's own desperate war-born tactics in a similar effort to extract information from the British.
Campbell's Kingdom
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
Starring: Barbara Murray, Sid James, James Robertson Justice, Robert Brown, Stanley Baker, Athene Seyler, Maurice Kaufmann
Directors: Ralph Thomas
Country: UK
Year: 1957
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits "Campbell's Kingdom" in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather...
Eva (1962)
Genres: Drama
Starring: Stanley Baker, James Villiers, Jeanne Moreau, Enzo Fiermonte, Virna Lisi, Lisa Gastoni, Riccardo Garrone
Directors: Joseph Losey
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1962
A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.
A Lizard In A Woman's Skin
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Starring: Stanley Baker, Ezio Marano, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Leo Genn, Alberto de Mendoza, Franco Balducci, George Rigaud
Directors: Lucio Fulci
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Year: 1971
Florinda Bolkan plays the daughter of a prominant English politician who keeps having recurring "nightmares" in which she makes love to a bisexual nympho who lives downstairs and conducts all-night LSD orgies. When the nocturnal wet dreams become murderous, the neighbor turns up dead, and Florinda is the main suspect. Did she actually commit the murder she dreamt about? Is she being framed by her philandering husband? Did Florinda actually make nightly visits downstairs aside from borrowing the occasional cup of sugar? How DID Florinda's letter opener end up stuck in the dead neighbor's chest anyway? The complex plot unfolds amidst red herrin...
Knights of the Round Table
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Anne Crawford, Felix Aylmer
Directors: Richard Thorpe
Country: USA
Year: 1953
King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. While she loves Arthur, she also loves Lancelot and though Lancelot repeatedly fights it, he loves her, too. Treachery is brewing as the evil Morgan le Fay and her knight Sir Modred work to trap them. So begins the decline and eventual fall of Arthur and Camelot.