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Claude Akins - filmography


  • Monster In The Closet on DVD (1987)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Howard Duff,  Donald Moffat
    Director: Bob Dahlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    San Francisco is terrorised by a spate of bizarre killings. The murders seem to have been committed in the closets of the victims, and an obituary writer from the local paper is sent out to find a story. A monster then reveals itself from the closet, the President declares a national emergency and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 285 members
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  • The Baron And The Kid on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Johnny Cash,  Greg Webb,  Richard Roundtree
    Director: Gary Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Johnny Cash stars as a legendary pool hustler in this made-for-TV drama. After years of travelling the pro pool circuit, William 'The Baron' Addington (Cash) has sacrificed his family and friends for years on the bottle. Determined to finally get his life back on track, he ditches the booze, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 11 members
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  • The Devil's Brigade (1968)
    Starring: Cliff Robertson,  William Holden,  Vince Edwards
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Whilst America was massing its forces at the beginning of World War 2, Britain had to keep the Germans at bay by mounting commando raids. To do this, the Allies created special task forces, one of which - the 1st Special Service Force - is destined for a raid on Norway. This force consists of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 531 members
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  • Waterhole 3 on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Timothy Carey,  James Coburn,  Carroll O'Connor
    Director: William A. Graham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cult comedy western starring James Coburn as Lewton Cole, a treasure hunter who will go to any lengths to get his hands on a map that gives the location to a secret stash of gold bullion. Cole knows that the treasure is buried somewhere near a desert waterhole, but so does his arch-rival, ex-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 79 members
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  • Incident At Phantom Hill on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Paul Fix,  Robert Fuller,  Noah Beery Jr.
    Director: Earl Bellamy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1960s western set during the latter stages of the American Civil War. When gold is taken from the US government and hidden, Captain Matt Martin (Robert Fuller) is sent to retrieve it. He discovers from murderous convict Joe Barlow (Dan Duryea) that the gold is located at Phantom Hill, in dangerous ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 16 members
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Dick York,  Florence Eldridge
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,129 member
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  • Rio Bravo on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Ward Bond,  John Wayne,  John Russell
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 3,776 members
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  • Rio Bravo - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: Ward Bond,  John Wayne,  John Russell
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Classic western drama directed by Howard Hawks. Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding a murderous villain in his cell while waiting for a magistrate to collect him for trial. The criminal's associates are desperate to free him, and will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. Chance's only ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 414 members
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  • The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
    Starring: King Donovan,  Lawrence Dobkin,  Tony Curtis
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,041 member
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  • The Caine Mutiny on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Fred MacMurray,  Jose Ferrer,  Tom Tully
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 859 members
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  • The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Fred MacMurray,  Jose Ferrer,  Tom Tully
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Lt. Commander Queeg (Humphrey Bogart), the man in charge of the USS Caine, loses his head during a typhoon, his chief officers feel compelled to relieve him of his post. Upon their return to dry land, Queeg brings the men up on charges of mutiny. Co-starring Fred MacMurray, Van Johnson and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 32 members
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Claude Akins facts

5 most recent films

Monster In The Closet - 2.0 stars
The Baron And The Kid - 3.0 stars
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes - 3.0 stars
The Devil's Brigade - 3.0 stars
Waterhole 3 - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rio Bravo - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Inherit The Wind - 4.0 stars
Rio Bravo - 3.5 stars
The Caine Mutiny - 3.5 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Baron And The Kid - 3.0 stars
Incident At Phantom Hill - 3.0 stars
The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Monster In The Closet - 2.0 stars
Waterhole 3 - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ward Bond - 3 times - show films
Walter Brennan - 3 times - show films
Dean Martin - 3 times - show films
John Russell - 3 times - show films
Angie Dickinson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Howard Hawks - 4 times - show films
Edward Dmytryk - 2 times - show films
Stanley Kramer - 2 times - show films
Burt Kennedy - 1 times - show films
Gary Nelson - 1 times - show films