James Best’s Typical Vibe
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James Best has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s.
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With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two outlaws who want the murderer for their own reasons and a recently-widowed woman, with the murderer's brother and his men in hot pursuit.
Dir. Budd Boetticher · With Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts

Legendary stunt man Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop painkillers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Dir. Hal Needham · With Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.
Dir. John Flynn · With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes

When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Paul Newman, Lita Milan, John Dehner

Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
Dir. Rod Amateau, Gy Waldron · With Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach