Jubal

Plot synopsis:
Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's (Ernest Borgnine) large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in Pinky (Rod Steiger), a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
Horgan is a cheerful, agreeable fellow who is married to an attractive, much younger woman named Mae (Valerie French) whom he met in Canada. He takes an immediate shine to Jubal and offers him a permanent job. Behind his back, Mae also has taken a liking to Jubal, which she expresses to him in no uncertain terms. Horgan has been impressed with Jubal's work ethic and makes him foreman over the other cowhands. That further antagonizes Pinky, whom Horgan does not trust.
Jubal fends off Mae's advances while developing an interest in Naomi (Felicia Farr), a young woman from a traveling wagon train of an unnamed religious group that the cowboys call "rawhiders." Pinky and the other cowboys try to run off the strangers and resent Jubal's interference on their behalf. Jubal's only ally is a drifter named Reb (Charles Bronson), who has attached himself to the wagon train. With Jubal's recommendation, Reb is hired to help him at the ranch.
Pinky, who has carried on with Mae behind her husband's back, tells Horgan that his wife and Jubal have betrayed him. Horgan demands the truth from Mae, who angrily responds that she can't stand him and lies that Jubal has been seeing her.
An enraged Horgan rides to town and confronts Jubal, intending to kill him. Reb flips a gun to Jubal just in time and Horgan is shot dead.
Pinky makes another play for Mae, then beats her savagely when she pushes him away. Pinky then rallies the others to go after Jubal, persuading them that he stole Horgan's wife and murdered him. A posse gets the truth from a dying Mae, that her accusations toward Jubal were completely untrue. She also reveals that Pinky beat her, just before she dies. The posse slowly circles Pinky and it's clear they intend to hang him. Jubal rides away with Naomi and Reb.

Tags: revenge

Review:
JUBAL takes about forty-five minutes to set up its tale of revenge and murder and lust in the dust, but once the plot gets into high gear it becomes highly watchable until the conclusion.GLENN FORD is an unhappy man on the run who's taken in by rancher ERNEST BORGNINE and his wife VALERIE FRENCH, earning his pay as a helper and suddenly promoted to foreman, much to the annoyance of ROD STEIGER, who wanted the job and also has his eyes on Borgnine's wife.Ford spends most of the story trying to fend off the advances of Valerie French, who turns out to be a real Jezebel creating trouble between Ford and Borgnine when she makes her hubby believe the lies that jealous Steiger has told him.
Before you know it, Ford is in deep trouble with nowhere to run except to seek the help of some peace loving pioneers on a wagon train, and a woman (FELICIA FARR) who wants to help him fight injustice.Delmer Daves directs the actors through their paces with skill, except that he allows ROD STEIGER to chew too much of the scenery.
His admission that he knows nothing about women or how to treat them, reminds me that "Marty" had the same problem.Summing up: Good western, excellent photography, nice scenery and one of Glenn Ford's most underrated performances..
It stars Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Charles Bronson, Valerie French & Felicia Farr.
Out of Columbia Pictures it's a CinemaScope/Technicolor production, and location for the shoot is Jackson Hole, The Grand Tetons, Wyoming, USA.Jubal Troop (Ford) is found exhausted out on the range and given shelter at a nearby ranch owned by Shep Horgan (Borgnine).
Steiger and Daves clashed over how to play Pinky, the director wanting something more akin to Ford's serene like role play, but Steiger wanted it played bitter and coiled spring like - the actor getting his way when producer William Fadiman sided with him.Valerie French (Decision at Sundown) looks beautiful in Technicolor, and in spite of an accent problem, does a neat line in how to play a smoldering fuse in a box of fire crackers.
Glenn Ford, Rod Steiger, Charles Bronson, Jack Elam and others are gone now, (and I haven't seen Ernie Borgnine in anything in years-although he's still working per the IMDb), but there they are in a very fine wide-screen western from 1956.The Western hit a peak in the 1950's.
Delmar Daves' great and unjustly neglected western finds Glenn Ford's title character falling prey to ranch-hand Rod Steiger's Iago-like jealously when Ernest Borgnine's Othello-like father figure picks him as his foreman and surrogate son.
Throw in the machinations of wife Valerie French who has the hots for Ford and it isn't difficult for Steiger to convince Borgnine that there's something going on.If Shakespeare's play is the blueprint, Daves' film is suitably complex in its own right and if Steiger displays a tendency to chew the scenery as he was wont to do, both Borgnine and Ford are outstanding, with Ford in particular proving something of a revelation.
Three Into Two Won't Go. Well you've got three men out at the Horgan Ranch, Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger.
The whole cast fills their roles very well and among the supporting players, particular kudos should go to Charles Bronson as Ford's friend and Basil Ruysdael as the leader of the Mennonites.This film was made in the afterglow of Borgnine's Oscar win with Marty and he was starting to get some good parts, not your standard movie thugs.
Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Charles Bronson and also two western old timers Noah Beery Jr. and Jack Elam.
Glenn Ford is the traditional western cowboy, a man of strength, toughness, and character who becomes a trusted ranch foreman while spurning the advances of an amorous but insecure married woman.
Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, and Charles Bronson are great in this film.
This mid-series film features Glenn Ford's easy-going charm, a rowdy Earnest Borgnine, a luscious Valerie French, and the panoramic backdrop of Jackson Hole Wyoming.
And in an odd piece of casting, which Daves seems fond of, method actor extrordinaire Rod Steiger appears as a treacherous ranch hand named of all things, Pinky!
And, oh yes, making a sudden appearance half way through, a lonesome Charles Bronson in a tacked on role that perhaps provided a needed payday, (Daves and Bronson had been together in the earlier, oddball essay "Drumbeat".) If none of this sounds good, then just sit back and take in the beautifully photographed alpine landscape that has salvaged many a western much less worthy than "Jubal"..
Released in 1956, "Jubal" is easily one of the best 50's Westerns and ranks with my all-time favorites.THE STORY: An injured drifter, Glenn Ford as Jubal Troop, is rescued by ranch-owner Shep (Earnest Borgnine), who ultimately promotes him to foreman of his ranch.
This stirs up the envy of ranch-hand Pinky (Rod Steiger) and the desire of Shep's young sexpot wife, Mae (Valerie French), which results in even more hostility from Pinky since he used to enjoy the adulterous attentions of Mae until Jubal came along.
The captivating drama is as old as the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife from Genesis 39.Add to this mix a group of trespassing Mennonites (or perhaps Quakers) who have in their company Naomi (Felicia Farr), a godly woman who attracts Jube's romantic eye, and Reb (Charles Bronson), another drifter who befriends Jube.WHAT WORKS: For the first hour and ten minutes or so "Jubal" is captivating cinema of the highest order.
Naomi (Farr) is an interesting addition to the story: her purity attracts Jube just as much as Mae's adulterous tactics turn him off.Rod Steiger is perfect as the villainous Southerner-turned-Westerner "Pinky." Notice how his hostility toward Jubal is rooted in arrogance, envy and jealousy.
Since there's no grounds for their hatred they resort to lies to destroy your reputation and poison people's minds against you.Glenn Ford is perfect as the tragedy-laden drifter and how can you go wrong with (a young) Charles Bronson?A big bonus is that the film was shot on location with the mighty Grand Tetons as a backdrop the entire story.
Let me add that Jubal is a man of fascinating noble character: he amazingly resists the skillful advances of the luscious Mae, like Joseph with Potiphar's wife, obviously because he wanted something better -- a woman he could trust!"Jubal" is a must for every Western fan's film library.The film runs 100 minutes.GRADE: A.
Have not seen this film in years and enjoyed this story in which Glenn Ford, (Jubal Troop) is injured and falls onto a dirt road and is discovered by Ernest Borgnine,(Shep Hogan) and he takes him back to his ranch and in time offers him a job and then a full time position as his top ranch hand.
Valerie French (Mae Hogan) is a woman who likes to fool around with other men and has tried out most of the ranch hands and she instantly gets hot over Jubal Troop which starts another side to the story..
It tells the story of a cowboy named Jubal (Glenn Ford) who is hired by rancher Shep (Ernest Borgnine) and catches the eye of Shep's young wife (Valerie French).
This doesn't sit well with Pinky (Rod Steiger), who works for Shep and has been having an affair with his wife.Essentially a western reworking of Othello with Ford as Cassio, Borgnine as Othello, French as Desdemona and Steiger as Iago.
The terrific male stars (Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, and, in a lesser role, Charles Bronson) are much better than the screenplay, which has them arguing over a woman (Valerie French) who hardly seems worth the trouble.
The other two points of the quadrangle  Valerie French as Borgnine's wife & Glenn Ford in the title role, as well as the climax fail to raise our expectations to the next level.
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Othello," Delmar Daves film "Jubal" is a better-than-average western that emphasizes character over action.
Rancher Ernest Borgnine befriends drifter Glenn Ford and hires him over the objections of his ranch hand, Rod Steiger.
While such a tangled tale of domestic intrigue could have been stretched over several episodes of "As the World Turns," "Jubal" remains above soap opera and focuses on Ford's personal conflict between his fidelity to a man he perceives as a father figure and his lust for a woman who makes herself available to him at every turn.With a fine cast that also includes Charles Bronson, Noah Beery Jr., and Felicia Farr, "Jubal" is engrossing if predictable.
This is an unpretentious and entertaining western shot on open wide-location in beautiful color that deals with friendship, loyalty, jealousy, treason and killing.But what demerits the film in my opinion and makes it just a standard one in its genre is that sort of "two-step shooting" style Glenn Ford and his friend Charles Bronson use whenever Ford needs to get into action.
Good cast too with convincing performances out of Ford, Rod Steiger and Ernest Borgnine.
Second is the outstanding level of the acting, which is perhaps not unexpected with the likes of the great (and greatly underrated) Glenn Ford, Rod Steiger, Ernest Borgnine and Charles Bronson.
and an eternal bitterness filled with tears and frustration, until one of the two decide that you must walk away from that relationship".This comment, I've taken verbatim from my book "Tomorrow the sun will rise", defines an experience similar to that recreates, to great effect, this master of cinema called in Delmer Daves his film "Jubal", a story of a landowner in his fifties (the always brilliant Ernest Borgnine) who married a beautiful and sensual young woman (Valerie French) who only sees in him a rough man, covered in money.Then their lives will intersect in a shepherd named Jubal (Glenn Ford) who, as estimated by the farmer, became his foreman and the type of man who will definitely attract the bitter girl.Daves then be responsible for defining human profiles are credible, they are nuanced and have actual reasons that explain their actions.
Some excellent performances, including Steiger and Bronson but the movie is a real tussle betwen Ford and Borgnine.
The casting of Rod Steiger also reminds you of the jealous ranch hand he played in Oklahoma.Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) is a kindly wealthy jolly ranch owner who hires the down on his luck drifter Jubal (Glenn Ford) to work for him.
Pinky (Rod Steiger) is the mean envious cow hand who is attracted to Mae and fools around with her.Pinky is the Iago who sows suspicion in Shep that Jubal is messing around with his wife.
Earnest Borgnine does a great job with Shep, making him a very likable character, not forced or overacted.Good, solid film with a unique breakdown of Ford's character when he talks to Felicia Farr's "Naomi" about his relationship with his mother.
This western does feature a great cast including Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, and Rod Steiger.
Glenn Ford plays Jubal Troop (amusing name), who stumbles upon a ranch run by Ernest Borgnine.
When Shakespeare's "Othello" met the Western movie in 1956 with director Delmer Daves commanding a cast and crew in the Grand Teton Range, the result was "Jubal": a solid, near-perfect gem that benefits enormously from gallant scenery and a plethora of solid performances.
The cattleman hires him on his ranch and later promotes him to foreman, much to the disdain of his best hand and to the pleasure of his unhappy wife, who has taken a shine to the stranger.The title character is played by Glenn Ford, the same wonderful actor who appeared in such movies as "Gilda," "Cowboy," and "3:10 to Yuma" another Delmer Daves classic.
He plays the noble cowboy in a believable, non-hyperbolic manner and that is what, I think, carries the whole movie.It also benefits from some other very good performances by Ernest Borgnine as the cattleman, the lovely Valerie French as his wife, and Rod Steiger as the jealous ranch hand.
Some are poor - some are masterful and Jubal falls into the latter category.Ford, surely one of the most under-rated actors of all time, turns in another cool, vulnerable performance as the drifter Jubal Troop doing his best to be loyal to his new best friend (rancher Borgnine) by avoiding the latters' restless, troublesome wife (French).Despite his best efforts, things soon go awry thanks to the assistance of the devious, scheming bully Pinky (Rod Steiger) and French herself, leading to the inevitable posse sent to hunt down the sorely wronged Jubal who is offered assistance by travelling settlers he'd previously helped.This film has everything - loyalty and betrayal, Shakespearean melodrama and tragedy, violence and moments of genuine suspense.
"Jubal" paints character, conflict and theme with extremely broad, expressionistic strokes.Women, as symbolized by Mae, are very one-dimensional in this 1956 Western starring Glenn Ford, Rod Steiger, Ernest Borgnine, and Charles Bronson.
Seven years later Daves and Lawton would return to the same stunning locations for the spectacularly photographed Warner picture "Spencer's Mountain".JUBAL stars Glenn Ford as Jubal Troop a wandering cowhand who is rescued from near freezing on a mountain trail by passing rancher Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine).
When a Wyoming cattle king, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), receives Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) in his ranch, his presence arouses strong emotions for his attractive young Canadian wife Mae...Shep, a friendly good-natured husband and the best loved man in the territory, offers his help and trust to Jubal and names him his foreman...
Shep was proud of the "sheep-herding friend" who got lost in the blizzard, and came over the pass from Montana, running from "bad luck."Mae (Valerie French), a rancher's wanton wife, spins the plot by her attentions to the disinterested cowboy Jubal, which further stirs up the surly range rider (Rod Steiger) with whom she had previously been carrying on an affair, unknown to her genteel husband...Truthful and straightforward, Jubal is caught between a loyal friend and an insistent desirous unfaithful wife who considers her husband's fine ranch a "10,000 acres of lonesomeness."Mae was not in love with her unattractive husband...
I love Jube."In that moment, Mae inflames a torrid fuse of sex, jealousy and revenge which make of Delmer Daves' "Jubal" a rather engrossing piece of adult entertainment...Glenn Ford was honest in his feelings toward his boss ("Shep made me feel like somebody.
His jealous was so great as his strong sexual desire for the ex-lover...In her film debut, Felicia Far was the radiant and beautiful as the little Rawhider responding to expert handling..."Jubal" returned Charles Bronson to the West and to the company of director Delmer Daves, with whom he had made "Drum Beat." Cast as a ranch-hand friend of Ford's in the employ of Borgnine, Bronson contributes his natural masculine presence to this psychological Western...Set against the mountainous fertile valley of the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, and beautifully photographed in CinemaScope and Technicolor, "Jubal" is a powerful adult Western in constant suspense....
So much of this is the story in "Jubal"--and quite a bit more--a western that was clearly inspired by this Biblical tale.The film begins with a drifter (Jubal, played by Glenn Ford) coming upon a large ranch.
While Pinky is pretty much Steiger's Judd from "Oklahoma", Charles Bronson plays a really great supporting character--one of the actors first solid roles.
The acting is generally according to type and nothing more: Glenn Ford is laconic if not emotionally stunted, with eyes that never display any emotion; Ernest Borgnine is better, a bit tamped down from his usual volatile self, though he stills careens from best-buddy to big threat; Valerie French is terrible as the bad Canadian (!) hussy but the role is mostly a device to animate Rod Steiger's jealous Pinky.
And the (no surprise here) real conniving villain is the great character actor, Rod Steiger, who was lusting after Borgnine's jaded wife all along and twisted the truth triggering a posse manhunt for Ford of which the real truth only came out at the climax.
So when Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) shows up and takes a job with Horgan, wife Mae (French) starts flashing her sparkling eyes and curvaceous body in his direction.
His isn't the only good performance; Glenn Ford puts in a nicely understated performance as Jubal, Ernest Borgnine is likable as Shep and Charles Bronson, in an early role, is good as Jubal's friend Reb. When the action starts it is more low-key than most westerns I've seen but that doesn't mean it isn't exciting; the showdown between Shep and Jubal is particularly good.
Besides Glenn Ford, there is Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger, Noah Beery Jr. and Jack Elam.
Ford and Steiger are the real star roles here, but Bronson makes a good impression in support.Borgnine and Ford are best friends, until late in the movie.
Routine Western Plus Sex. Nice cast -- Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson, and Glen Ford.
"Smells like sheep dip to me." Furthermore, Borgnine's hot-blooded wife, Valerie French, takes a shine to the recalcitrant Ford and she has previously been available, behind Borgnine's back, to Steiger, known as Pinkie.
Loosely based on Othello it's a fine effort with a first rate cast from top-billed Glenn Ford the Steiger, Borgnine to Noah Beery Jnr, Charles Bronson in a rare sympathetic role and relative newcomer Felicia Farr.
Good Samaritan rancher Shep (Ernest Borgnine of "Marty") is a genuinely pleasant fellow who takes the cowboy, Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford of "Texas"), in and gives him a job.
Meanwhile, one of the ranch owner's hands, Pinky (Rod Steiger of "On the Waterfront") doesn't like Shep's charitable gesture of kindness.
Shep's beautiful wife Mae (Valerie French) is a no-good spouse who lusts after Jubal behind her husband's ignorant back.
When I first saw Rod Steiger, in the role of 'Pinky' and heard his negative comments about the half dead man(Jubal) that boss Shep had brought home, I knew he had the be the main 'heavy'.