James Coburn’s Typical Vibe
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James Coburn has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Great Escape.
Recurring themes

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Adventure · Drama

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
1974
Comedy · Action

The Cowboys
1972
Western · Adventure

The Way West
1967
Action · Adventure

Rooster Cogburn
1975
Adventure · Drama

The Eiger Sanction
1975
Action · Adventure

The Guns of Navarone
1961
Action · Adventure

Convoy
1978
Action · Comedy

The Great Escape
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%MGM+ · Included

Charade
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Prime Video · Included

Duck, You Sucker
1971 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%MGM+ · Included

Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Movie · Voice
Top 7%Disney+ · Included

Cross of Iron
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

Midway
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%AMC+ · Included

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Dir. John Sturges · With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough

After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines.
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Dir. John Sturges · With Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
Dir. Pete Docter · With John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Dir. Richard Donner · With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason

This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Dir. Jack Smight · With Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game—but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn

When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Dir. Daniel Mann · With James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
Dir. Budd Boetticher · With Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts

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.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
Dir. Michael Crichton · With Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
Dir. Chuck Russell · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
Dir. Paul Schrader · With Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn

Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Dir. Bill Duke · With Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Lauryn Hill
Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.
Dir. Michael Lehmann · With Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.
Dir. Brian Levant · With Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqó

When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, genetic professor Dr. Sherman Klump grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up, plumped down Don Juan.
Dir. Tom Shadyac · With Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn
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