The best Stanley Baker’s thriller movies

Stanley Baker

Stanley Baker

08/02/1928- 28/06/1976
Today we present the best Stanley Baker’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Stanley Baker’s movies.

The Hidden Room

The Hidden Room
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 03/08/1949
  • Character: Policeman at Garage
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
6.8/10
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?

Robbery

Robbery
6.9/10
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.

Innocent Bystanders

Innocent Bystanders
5.9/10
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.

Hell Is a City

Hell Is a City
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 10/04/1960
  • Character: Insp. Harry Martineau
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.

Cloudburst

Cloudburst
6.6/10
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.

Home to Danger

Home to Danger
5.9/10
A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.

The Angry Hills

The Angry Hills
5.7/10
Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.

Beautiful Stranger

Beautiful Stranger
5.9/10
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

Blind Date

Blind Date
6.7/10
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

Checkpoint

Checkpoint
5.6/10
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.

Jet Storm

Jet Storm
6.5/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 16/09/1959
  • Character: Capt. Bardow
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

The Man Who Finally Died

The Man Who Finally Died
6.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 01/12/1963
  • Character: Joe Newman
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.

Who Killed Lamb?

Who Killed Lamb?
6.6/10
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.

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