5 Movies Starring Stanley Baker

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-06-22

Languages:

English, Greek, German

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

158 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (33609 Reviews)

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Cast:

Writer:

Alistair MacLean (novel)

Carl Foreman (written for the screen by)

Fullplot:

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?.

Eva

Eva

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-06-04

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

107 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (734 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Losey

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

James Hadley Chase (novel)

Hugo Butler

Evan Jones

Fullplot:

A raw Welsh novelist in Venice is humiliated by a money-loving Frenchwoman who erotically ensnares him.

Accident

Accident

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-06-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2113 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Losey

Genres:

DramaCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Nicholas Mosley (novel)

Harold Pinter (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The Oxford professor of philosophy Stephen has two favorite pupils, the athletic aristocrat William and the Austrian Anna von Graz. Stephen is a frustrated man, with a negligent wife, Rosalind, who is pregnant of their third child, and is envious of the Oxford professor Charley that has a television show. Stephen feels attracted to Anna, but William woos her and she becomes his girlfriend. Charley has a love affair with Anna but when William dies in a car accident, she leaves Oxford to return to her home town.

Robbery

Robbery

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-02-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (525 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Yates

Cast:

Writer:

Edward Boyd

George Markstein

Gerald Wilson (story)

Peter Yates

Fullplot:

A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.

The Girl with a Pistol

The Girl with a Pistol

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1968-08-22

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

M

IMDB Ratings:

(579 Reviews)

Director:

Mario Monicelli

Cast:

Writer:

Ronald Harwood (English adaptation)

Luigi Magni

Rodolfo Sonego

Fullplot:

Comedy-drama about a Sicilian woman (Vitti), "dishonored" by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.

Become a Movie Insider

Join our mailing list and get access to expert analysis, trivia, and recommendations that will elevate your movie-watching experience.

View our privacy policy.