Warren Oates

Making of 'Blue Thunder'

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.

A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.

An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.

来るロサンゼルスオリンピックに向けてのテロ対策と警備強化を名目に、カリフォルニア州当局は陸軍と合同で秘密裏に攻撃ヘリコプター「ザ・スペシャル」ことブルーサンダーを開発し、ロサンゼルス市警察に配備した。 州当局の意向で運用試験のパイロットに選ばれたベトナム帰りの警察航空隊員フランク・マーフィーは、コンビを組む航空観測員・ライマングッドを伴ったブルーサンダーのテスト飛行中に、連邦地方庁舎の一室で行なわれていた州政府関係者の密議を盗聴、録画してしまう。それは、ブルーサンダーの能力をアピールするためのヒスパニック地区での暴動煽動、また反対派を暗殺する「ソア（THOR= Tactical Helicopter Offensive Response 戦術ヘリ攻撃対応）計画：騒乱鎮圧への軍用ヘリ活用」に関するものだった。しかも、ベトナム時代の上官でブルーサンダーの開発にも携わる陸軍大佐・コクランが陰謀に一枚噛んでおり、直前に起きていた市議会委員長殺害事件に絡む謎の言葉“THOR”はこの陰謀の事だった。 コクランらは証拠隠滅のためにライマングッドを殺害、マーフィーにその容疑がかけられる。マーフィーはブルーサンダーを強奪して逃走すると、別居中の妻ケイトにライマングッドが死の直前に隠した密議の録画ビデオをテレビ局の報道キャスター・ヒューイットに渡すよう託し、自らはロサンゼルス上空で権力と、そしてコクランの乗る軍用ヘリとの孤独な闘いを繰り広げる。

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.

In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years after their last child.

真珠湾攻撃直後のカリフォルニア沖に突如浮上する大日本帝国潜水艦。ただの田舎町をハリウッドと勘違いした潜水艦が攻撃を決定したことから、アメリカ陸軍と住民たちの大騒動が始まる。＜「JAWS／ジョーズ」「未知との遭遇」に続くスピルバーグ監督のコメディ作品。本作のモチーフとなったのは、イ17によるカリフォルニア州サンタバーバラのエルウッド石油製油所攻撃や、イ26によるカナダのバンクーバー島攻撃など、太平洋戦争中に遂行された日本海軍潜水艦による一連のアメリカ本土砲撃、そして日本軍の攻撃に対するアメリカ人の恐怖が引き起こしたロサンゼルスの戦いである。＞

An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.

A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.

1950年代、ボストンで起きた実際の事件をもとにした犯罪ドラマ。出所した金庫破りのプロ、トニーは、義弟から、ブリンクス金融会社の襲撃計画を持ちかけられる。トニーはかつての仲間を集めて、270万ドルが眠る大金庫にいどむが……。

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.

Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been substituted. Included in the mix are such show as The Shitheads, The Charles Whitman Invitational, and commercials for a number of improbable products.

After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Jack McKee and Cecil Colson are two bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle from other peoples herds in the wilds of Montana. Jack is from a wealthy background but left his parents as he resented their posh lives, and Cecil is a Native American half-breed seeking his own path in life away from his father. Both hustle and rustle their way in the world by targeting cattle owned by wealthy ranch owner John Brown. Frustrated that someone is killing his cattle, John hires a pair of ranch hands Burt and Curt to find the rustlers. When Brown realizes he cannot trust his two inept ranch hands, he turns to the grizzled former rustler Henry Beige to find the cattle thieves, while Jack and Cecil are always one step ahead of them, not realizing that their luck will eventually run out sometime.

A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

ジェームス・ディーンに憧れる25歳の男が15歳の少女と出会う。交際を禁じられたため、彼女の父親を殺し、2人は逃避の旅に出る。鬼才テレンス・マリックが作り上げた、日本未公開のカルト劇。

骨太演出が魅力のジョン・ミリアス監督が伝説のギャング・スター、ジョン・デリンジャーの生涯を映画化した実録ドラマ。1930年代、デリンジャーが銃を片手に銀行強盗を繰り返していた姿を暴力映像満載で描く。

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.

A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an important mission in Korea.

妻と娘を捨て旅立った男が、7年間におよぶさすらいの果て、放浪を共にした親友と家に戻る決意をする。突然の夫の帰還を受け入れない妻と次第に信頼を取り戻していくが、友とは別れが近づき……。

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.

Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.

An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.

Tilman and Lanton Mills, two cowboys who set off on horseback to rob a bank. On the way, they stop to see their boss, the "Old Man", only to discover he has been murdered by another cowboy, John Sparks.

バイオレンス映画の巨匠サム・ペキンパー監督が、20世紀初頭のメキシコを舞台に滅びゆくアウトローたちの姿を描いた傑作西部劇。1913年、アメリカ・テキサスでの銀行強盗に失敗したパイクら強盗団はメキシコに逃走する。旧友ソーントンら賞金稼ぎに追われる中、メキシコ政府のマパッチ将軍の依頼で米軍用列車から武器を強奪するパイクたちだったが、マパッチの裏切りに遭い、仲間を人質に取られてしまう……。スローモーションに細かいカットを挿入するペキンパーのアクション演出は後続に大きな影響を与えた。出演はウィリアム・ホールデン、アーネスト・ボーグナイン。

Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.

When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police.

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold to a group of Cornish immigrants. A murder implicates one of the immigrants, and it is up to Gallegher to prove that a local resident is actually the murderer and the swindler is a local banker.

南部で発生した殺人事件の容疑者として、駅で列車を待っていた黒人青年ヴァージルの身柄が拘束された。しかし警察の取り調べによって、ヴァージルは殺人課の刑事であることが判明する。警察署長のビルは、ヴァージルに反感を覚えながらも、協力して捜査を進めていくが……。

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

村娘と結ばれて平和な農村生活を送る、元ガンマンのチコ。彼が野盗軍団に捕らえられたことを知った昔の仲間は、新たな仲間たちとともに救助に向かう……。『七人の侍』を下敷きに作られたハリウッド名作の続編。

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.

南北戦争を舞台にした名作ヒューマン・ドラマ。激戦地シェナンドー河畔に農場を持つチャーリー。末息子が北軍に連れ去られ、救出するために彼は捕虜輸送列車を襲撃するが……。

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.

Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

カリフォルニアの鉱山で掘り出された金を町の銀行へ預けるため、搬送人として元保安官のスティーヴが雇われた。責任重大な任務を受けたスティーヴは、旧知の仲のギルとその若い相棒ヘックを助手に抜擢すると鉱山へ出発。道中立ち寄った家で会った若い娘エルザも、恋人のビリーが鉱山で働いていることから三人と同行することになった。だが一行が鉱山に着いた時、ヘックがエルザをめぐってビリーたちハモンド兄弟と対立してしまい、抗争の火種を作ることに。一方、ギルとヘックは元々計画していた金の強奪に及ぶもスティーヴに見つかり失敗してしまう。そんな中、一行はハモンド兄弟の襲撃に遭う。

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.

A hoodlum (Corey Allen) plots to seduce a lonely housewife (Kate Manx) and turn her over to his virginal friend (Warren Oates).

A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her.

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938.