Review of Jubal

Jubal (1956)
5/10
Meh
29 March 2015
I did not like this at all. At best, it might have been a serviceable Western. Glenn Ford plays Jubal Troop (amusing name), who stumbles upon a ranch run by Ernest Borgnine. Borgnine hires him and likes him so much he soon makes him the foreman. Unfortunately, there's a jerk who's been there a lot longer than Ford who resents him. Even more unfortunately, he's played by Rod Steiger with a Cajun accent. Steiger absolutely stinks this film up. Every moment he's on screen I hated it. There's not too much interest besides that, though. Ford's character is mostly a bore, really disappointing considering how awesome he was when they gave him something to work with in 3:10 to Yuma the next year. A lot of the plot revolves around Borgnine's whore of a wife, Valerie French, who isn't very good, either. Ford's love interest, Felicia Farr, is a bore, too. Charles Bronson also appears. The color cinematography is pretty good.
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