Bill McKinney

10 films on Best Blurays5 in 4K5 in HD

Bill McKinney was an American character actor whose most famous role was the sadistic mountain man who abused and then sodomized Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty) in the movie Deliverance. McKinney is also recognizable for his performances in seven Clint Eastwood films, most notably as Union cavalry commander Captain "Redlegs" Terrill in The Outlaw Josey Wales. Most of Bill McKinney's colleagues perceived him as big, brutal and dangerous. At first glance. Still, he was only 5' 10" (1,78 m).

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5 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Supporting role · Director: Clint Eastwood

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

3.9

First Blood (1982)

Supporting role · Director: Ted Kotcheff

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray (2026 Rambo set)

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Caps #1 (with FEL), caps #2

Additional Info:

The compression is underwhelming on all discs, but despite trading blows in various frames, Lionsgate's re-released 4K disc wins.

The Lionsgate 4K re-release includes original matrixed Dolby Stereo mix, transferred from a LaserDisc, with missing cues at side changeover points corrected, and consistent volume throughout, as well as two remixed variants in 5.1 and 7.1 Atmos. The 5.1 is incorrectly labeled as original on the menu.

3.9

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

Supporting role · Director: Michael Cimino

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Capelight 4K Blu-ray > Kino Lorber caps. Capelight has better encoding than the Kino.

Recommended upgrade for viewers who aren't DV compatible due to Capelight properly encoding the HDR10 base layer instead of Kino, who require a huge DV layer to "fill in" picture information from a more compressed / compromised

3.7