The Warren Oates thread

warren oates was a poet. no, really, he wrote poetry but was too shy to try to publish it apparently.

warren oates owned

Not only had I forgotten that he was terrific in his first significant lead role in The Shooting, I had forgotten he was in it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep8hLLcnxOE

!

also great in unusual western (directed by peter fonda) "the hired hand"

i didn't know he was in that one, which i really ought to see.

Rescreened Dillinger last week--Much Oates ownage there.

finally saw Dillinger, nice 35mm print; too bad Milius wrote it, especially, as well as directed. He seems to lose interest in Oates in the third act, preferring to give scenes to Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Cloris Leachman (and to Ben Johnson's Purvis throughout). I wonder if maybe they didn't get along.

i agree w/ Grisso, the phone scene is great.

Anybody seen this?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K5KYKXC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

yep

it's good, but Corey Allen has the juicier, creepier part

Really enjoyed him in the Shooting a few weeks ago

(Oates that is)

yep

it's good, but Corey Allen has the juicier, creepier part

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 20:51 (Yesterday) Permalink

it's one of oates's dim-witted cretin parts. he did a lot of those in the 1960s (TV and film).

everyone should see personal property, it's astonishingly unwholesome.

Someone reissued 92 in the Shade this summer. I've been waiting forever to see that.

It's...sorta good...in a bad way.

I'll probably hold off until a cheaper used copy shows up on the Canadian Amazon. There's this infuriating practice in place where everything on amazon.ca is twice as expensive as the American version (and just as or more expensive if you try to circumvent that by ordering from amazon.com).