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Claude Akins has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Rio Bravo.
Recurring themes

The Reptile
1966
Horror

Rancho Notorious
1952
Drama · Western

The Plague of the Zombies
1966
Horror · Mystery

The Undefeated
1969
Western

Guns for San Sebastian
1967
Western

Django
1966
Action · Western

Death Rides a Horse
1967
Western

One-Eyed Jacks
1961
Western · Drama

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · With Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland

A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes

A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.
Dir. Budd Boetticher · With Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins

Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.
Dir. Burt Kennedy · With Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Austin Stoker
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes’ family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the family and other members of the community.
Dir. David Keith · With Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare
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