JUBAL
(Columbia) A Cert. HE stranger who turns up at the lonely ranch-house and, staying on, becomes involved:in the fate of his hosts has become a familiar character in Westerns. Jubal Troop is one of these, and you wouldn’t find a more decent joker than Glenn Ford to play the part. Poor Jube has been running away all his life, and when Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) takes a fancy to him and makes him his foreman his new affliction turns out to be not Indians or landhungry neighbours, but Shep’s rather sexy wife and a jealous cowhand named Pinky (Rod Steiger). This isn’t a Western for children, but grown-ups should find it interesting. I did, anyway, though since it has the conventional happy ending I’d have. preferred to do without an implied lynching. An attractive English actress, Valerie French, in her first Hollywood part, plays the wife with disturbing intensity, there are the good performances you’d expect from Mr Borgnine and Mr Steiger, and Felicia Farr has all the qualities needed for the other woman in Jubal’s life. Very competently directed by Delmer Daves, Jubal has the simplicity of plot one looks for in a Western; and the CinemaScope camera has made the most of some attractive locations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 23
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