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Claude Akins - filmography


  • The Devil's Brigade on DVD (1968)
    Starring: William Holden,  Cliff Robertson,  Vince Edwards
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Standard WWII fantasyland fare as Holden grabs a thankless detail: create a fit commando troop from a gaggle of down-and-dirty Canadian and American misfits. Big-budget, big-screen treatment and curious assortment of stars doesn't add up to much, but choosing the the Italian Alps as a theatre of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 520 members
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  • Waterhole 3 on DVD (1967)
    Starring: James Coburn,  Carroll O'Connor,  Maggie Blye
    Director: William A. Graham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Somewhere in the vicinity of the dusty Arizona burg of Integrity lies a fortune in stolen gold, buried at a desert waterhole by three confederates. Zeroing in on the hidden wealth is conniving gambler Lewton Cole who's armed with a promising map, riding a stolen horse and pusued by a less-than-law-..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 74 members
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  • Inherit The Wind on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Gene Kelly,  Fredric March
    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 1,061 member
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  • Rio Bravo on DVD (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Ricky Nelson
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 3,592 members
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  • Rio Bravo - HD (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Ricky Nelson
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    No-nonsense Texas border sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) fights off ruthless mercenary gunmen in order to keep a murderer in custody. A ragtag band of volunteers, consisting of a singing kid, a toothless old man, a recovering alcoholic, and a spunky woman, assists. Contains an interesting sing-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 50 members
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  • Rio Bravo - Blu-ray (1959)
    Starring: John Wayne,  Dean Martin,  Ricky Nelson
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    No-nonsense Texas border sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) fights off ruthless mercenary gunmen in order to keep a murderer in custody. A ragtag band of volunteers, consisting of a singing kid, a toothless old man, a recovering alcoholic, and a spunky woman, assists. Contains an interesting sing-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 366 members
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  • The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Tony Curtis,  Charles McGraw
    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 64% from 990 members
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  • The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Van Johnson,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In director Edward Dmytryk's classic seafaring drama, privileged mama's boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humprey Bogart) takes ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 4 members
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • The Caine Mutiny on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Van Johnson,  Jose Ferrer
    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 802 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

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

5 lowest-rated films

Incident At Phantom Hill - 3.0 stars
The Baron And The Kid - 3.0 stars
The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Rio Bravo - HD - 4.0 stars
Monster In The Closet - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Russell - 3 times - show films
Angie Dickinson - 3 times - show films
John Wayne - 3 times - show films
Ward Bond - 3 times - show films
Ricky Nelson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Howard Hawks - 3 times - show films
Edward Dmytryk - 2 times - show films
Stanley Kramer - 2 times - show films
Andrew V. McLaglen - 1 times - show films
Gary Nelson - 1 times - show films