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Claude Akins

Claude Akins

10 films on Best Blurays4 in 4K5 in HD1 with no official release

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Claude Marion Akins (May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994) was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen and television. Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series B. J. and the Bear, and later The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off series, with Ben Cooper appearing as Waverly. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Akins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB

4 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Leading role · Director: Budd Boetticher

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Additional Info:

Indicator Blu-ray has better presented extras plus additional unique extras.

Supporting role · Director: Don Siegel

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Plaion Germany 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Supporting role · Director: Howard Hawks

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1988 WB VHS

Small role · Director: Fred Zinnemann

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Sony Columbia Classics Vol 3 4K Blu-ray

5 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Supporting role · Director: Samuel Fuller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: Stanley Kramer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

MoC Blu-ray > Kino Lorber > Twilight Time. Kino Lorber has slightly worse encoding than MoC, see caps, and Twilight Time is over-exposed

Supporting role · Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Universal Blu-ray

Supporting role · Director: John Farrow

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Small role · Directors: Henry Hathaway & John Ford & George Marshall

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Bros Blu-ray 2-Disc version (Digibook) for the Smilebox presentation

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:
  • See what smilebox looks like for its smilebox trailer

  • See Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader's review especially why a smilebox version is preferred, for example how a letterboxd version is actually distorted

  • Even if you do not prefer the smilebox version, the letterboxd version is still present on disc 1

1 with no official release

Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost

Supporting role · Director: Otto Preminger

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

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