Barbara Rush’s Typical Vibe
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Barbara Rush has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s.
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John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.
Dir. Martin Ritt · With Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
Dir. Nicholas Ray · With James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Dir. Rudolph Maté · With Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen

Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
Dir. Edward Dmytryk · With Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
Dir. Douglas Sirk · With Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush