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Walter Hill (1942-) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his action films. During the 1980s, Hill was the best action director working in movies. His IMDb page shows over 25 directing credits since 1975. This page will rank Walter Hill movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Walter Hill Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Walter Hill Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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As Bruce says above Walter Hill has had multi-function involvement with film-making as director/assistant director/producer/assistant producer/writer and I have seen 7 movies in which he performs one or more of these functions:
The Drowning Pool-screenplay
48 Hours-director
Alien 1979-producer
Aliens 1986-executive producer/story
Alien 3-producer/screenplay
Alien Resurrection-producer
Last Man Standing-director/producer/screenplay
Walter has also had roles in 2 movies: Baby Driver[voice] and Messiah of Evil [stabbing victim in prologue].
EXTRA TRIVIA: 1996’s Last Man Standing starring Bruce Willis with which of all the 7 that I have listed Walter seems to have had the most comprehensive involvement is a remake of the legendary Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Yojimbo starring the great Toshiro Mifune.
That version is considered a ‘foreign’ classic and IMDB gives it an 82% rating in contrast to the poor 49% that The Work Horse awards above to Last Man Standing. Nevertheless I was interested in just the Bruce Willis version and THAT was because Brucie was in it. Kurosawa made as well the classic 1954 Seven Samurai also starring Mifune.
I should add that IMDB is more generous than our own Work Horse as it gives Last Man Standing a slightly better than “good” 64% with which I concur as whilst no classic it was a solid action movie with Willis in fine form. [sorry Work Horse but I am sure that if Hirsch were around he would agree with YOU !]
Hey Bob. Thanks for the thoughts on Walter Hill. He might be one of the first directors, besides Spielberg that I came to know. I remember connecting the dots between his The Warriors and his 48 Hours. 48 Hours was one of the first VHS tapes I wore out. Tally count: Dan 20, Cogerson 15 and you 7….though I suspect Dan has seen all the Alien movies as well. I decided to only include his directed movie. He was a late addition into our third book….which is now finished. I will have to go back and see where Last Man Standing sits now. That was one of the first movies researched on this movie ranking path. A lot could have changed over the last 10 years….different reviews and a slight difference in how we do our calculation….so maybe it is higher than the 49% it currently sits at. I actually saw that one in theaters….and thought it was a good action flick. Good stuff as always.
HI BRUCE: Thanks for the feedback and additional background information. I think that we are agreed that Willis’ Last Man Standing is worthy of being called an OK action movie/thriller.
Maybe the problem with some critics is that for them everything must be a ‘classic’ and they cannot accept the mass appeal of movies that are not particularly special artistically but just a good, well-made all-round solid entertainment product especially if a highly-charismatic figure like The Duke of Mr Gimme More is at the centre of the movie.
Anyway I am relieved that you and I are in broad agreement: it would be ironic if we got into a “Mexican Standoff” in which I insisted that a Willis movie was well-worth watching but you bad-mouthed it!
Glad to hear the 3rd book is now finished; naturally I look forward to buying my own copy of it. It will sit well on my shelf as a useful reference source alongside your first two: Top 50 Movie Stars and Ranking Today’s Movie Stars – with only the 1983 Rating the Movie Stars looking the poor relation!!! And by the way the Audie Murphy bookthat you kindly sent me some time ago remains a useful guide for me when I am doing my private exercises relating to movies.
Hey Bob. The last ten years has been good to Last Man Standing….it’s IMDb score has gone from a 6.1 to a 6.4….and it’s combined Rotten Tomato score has moved up as well…..it moved up 5%……but is still under the “Good” line….but 54% is a lot better than 49%. In this table it was enough to move Last Man Standing to 15th place versus the original 17th place. As for the book….it is complete….it is going through a final edit for errors…and then we are good to go……this one is only 238 pages…..as we were trying to get the price under $10 bucks….mission accomplished as it is only going to be $8.99. Glad you have enjoyed the Audie book. Good stuff as always.
I’ve seen 20 of them. The only one I didn’t see is The Assignment.
Hey Dan. Thanks for checking out our Walter Hill page. He was the man back in the 1980s. I was a big fan of his 48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice, Streets of Fire, Southern Comfort, Red Heat and The Long Riders. Add in his The Warriors made in 1979…what a run of great action movies. I have always been surprised that his career pretty much stalled after that decade. Only 5 movies in the last quarter of a century. Was working with Bruce Willis on 1996’s Last Man Standing that bad?…lol. I have seen 15 of the 21 movies…so I trail you by 5 movies. Good stuff as always.