Jubal (1956)
Country: US
Technical: col/Cinemascope 100m
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson, Noah Beery Jr.
Synopsis:
A rancher takes in a saddle tramp and makes him his foreman, incurring the enmity of one of the hands and the lust of his wife. The two prove to be a lethal mix.
Review:
Straining somewhat after Othello resonances, this is really more about a man who loses one father and is then forced to kill his surrogate. It's a well acted brew (except Steiger goes over the top), reminiscent of Shane in its setting and some of its ideas, though it is one of those Westerns in which the characters revert to type: jealous rival x2, bad girl/good girl, big-hearted boss, honest man etc. and wrongs are swiftly righted by the timely demise of the source of all the trouble (an unlikely miscalculation on the baddie's part). The wide open Wyoming spaces are well served by Cinemascope, and there is an attempt to inject some in-depth compositions with a Winchester barrel, block and tackle and a mobile camera. In the end, though, this serves best as a reminder of how good Ford was at doing the most with the least.
Country: US
Technical: col/Cinemascope 100m
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson, Noah Beery Jr.
Synopsis:
A rancher takes in a saddle tramp and makes him his foreman, incurring the enmity of one of the hands and the lust of his wife. The two prove to be a lethal mix.
Review:
Straining somewhat after Othello resonances, this is really more about a man who loses one father and is then forced to kill his surrogate. It's a well acted brew (except Steiger goes over the top), reminiscent of Shane in its setting and some of its ideas, though it is one of those Westerns in which the characters revert to type: jealous rival x2, bad girl/good girl, big-hearted boss, honest man etc. and wrongs are swiftly righted by the timely demise of the source of all the trouble (an unlikely miscalculation on the baddie's part). The wide open Wyoming spaces are well served by Cinemascope, and there is an attempt to inject some in-depth compositions with a Winchester barrel, block and tackle and a mobile camera. In the end, though, this serves best as a reminder of how good Ford was at doing the most with the least.
Country: US
Technical: col/Cinemascope 100m
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, Felicia Farr, Charles Bronson, Noah Beery Jr.
Synopsis:
A rancher takes in a saddle tramp and makes him his foreman, incurring the enmity of one of the hands and the lust of his wife. The two prove to be a lethal mix.
Review:
Straining somewhat after Othello resonances, this is really more about a man who loses one father and is then forced to kill his surrogate. It's a well acted brew (except Steiger goes over the top), reminiscent of Shane in its setting and some of its ideas, though it is one of those Westerns in which the characters revert to type: jealous rival x2, bad girl/good girl, big-hearted boss, honest man etc. and wrongs are swiftly righted by the timely demise of the source of all the trouble (an unlikely miscalculation on the baddie's part). The wide open Wyoming spaces are well served by Cinemascope, and there is an attempt to inject some in-depth compositions with a Winchester barrel, block and tackle and a mobile camera. In the end, though, this serves best as a reminder of how good Ford was at doing the most with the least.