Paul Hurst’s Typical Vibe
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Paul Hurst has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s.
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An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams

Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
Dir. William Wyler · With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport

Notorious shootist and womanizer Quirt Evans' horse collapses as he passes a Quaker family's home. Quirt has been wounded, and the kindly family takes him in to nurse him back to health against the advice of others. The handsome Evans quickly attracts the affections of their beautiful daughter, Penelope. He develops an affection for the family and their faith, but his troubled past follows him.
Dir. James Edward Grant · With John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey