Barbara Rush

[laughs] Yeah.

Um, you know, but I got to work with Barbara Rush and Stella Stevens and Howard Duff and all these great seasoned professionals.

Jane Wyman, you know, Cesar Romero.

I mean, my first day on the set of Falcon Crest, I said to [laughs] Cesar, "So Cesar, tell me what it was like working with Marlene Dietrich in Devil Is a Woman in '33," you know?

I mean, these are old school professionals, so you just learned every day that you were there.

And, and it was funny because sometimes I think they learned a little from me.

Barbara Rush took me aside and [laughs] she said, "You know, you do this thing with your side eye that is so good, and I just always watch that." [laughs]

[laughs]

He's especially good at playing the brilliant, misunderstood scientist, and this picture gives him plenty to work with.

Putnam's girlfriend, schoolteacher Ellen, is played by the lovely Barbara Rush.

Rush had a long career in film and television, and science fiction fans might also remember her from When Worlds Collide.

One of my favorite bits in the movie is when everyone asks Ellen why she isn't at school.

And there's a picture of all the humans in their sort of roller coaster seats and the rocket as it's about to land on the new planet.

At the front there is Barbara Rush and Johnny, the little kid who has to go, gee, mom, can I keep him when there are puppies at the end? the most 50s addition to any sci-fi film here it says when worlds collide data file made 1952 now so far i've not agreed with any of the release dates on any of these i wonder if it was released in britain in 52 because this is this is legendarily one of the big three 1951 sci-fi movies uh so yes says made 1952 we'll go with that stars richard dirt barbara rush and larry keating Background info.

When Worlds Collide was written in the 1930s by Philip Wiley and Edwin Balmer and bought by Paramount Studios for director Cecil B. DeMille, who turned it down in favour of another project.

Finally produced by George Powell, king of the sci-fi movie special effects department.

Budgeted quite tightly, meaning it has B-list stars, second leads.

It was meant to have Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and things, and it hasn't.

It's got Richard Durr, who's the lead, Barbara Rush, who's very good, who plays his love interest.

They're cheaper than stars.

So I was reading all this stuff into like stylistic intent into all of these POV shots.

And this film feels... very confrontational and accusatory at times, salacious at times when, you know, the alien's kind of creeping up on Barbara Rush at one point and putting his hand on her shoulder.

And then I read that it's 3D and all of this stuff that I was thinking about the film was like, oh, that's just, all of those were just gimmicks.

3d shots that's all that was like but i'd read all of this stuff into it and i still think it's you know it's interesting and it works on that level but i just didn't realize that those were all just trick shots essentially for a bit of 3d fun

but she won a, she won an award for this.

so calls into question the award a little bit

yeah barbara rush apparently won a golden globe for this and a lot of her performance is just screaming at various things and when i was writing my notes on it i was trying to figure out all the bits where she did it so she did it at the joshua tree screams at joshua tree um she screams at that child who turns up in like at the door in a spaceman suit with a ray gun and then she screams at the actual alien which is like fair enough but

only three is there is only three

Me too.

With Barbara Rush.

Yes.

Nice work.

Oh, totally.

You have a rugged amateur astronomer, played by Richard Carlson, and a school teacher, played by Barbara Rush.

Classic setup.

Very.