Jubal

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Jubal

1956,

1h 41m,

Western

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1,000+ Ratings

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76%

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1,000+ Ratings

Searching for work, cowboy Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) arrives in a small town, where he badly injures his hand. Fortunately, a local rancher, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), is willing to employ Troop despite the injury. Horgan and Troop work together amicably, but Horgan's two-timing wife (Valerie French) threatens to create discord when she becomes interested in Troop, although he really loves another woman. A jealous cowhand (Rod Steiger) complicates matters by spreading lies.

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Variety

Mar 26, 2009

The strong point of this gripping dramatic story set in pioneer Wyoming is a constantly mounting suspense.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

[A] taut, neurotic melodrama.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Nov 11, 2025

3.5/4

Jubal is a movie of roiling tensions, as the four lead characters constantly are pitted against each other due to jealousy, deceit, and misunderstandings.

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Christopher Long

Movie Metropolis

May 22, 2013

7/10

Just the kind of beautiful world where a man in need of a miracle might find one, and the kind that can be despoiled a few acts of venality.

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

May 15, 2013

3.5/4

an intense drama whose Shakespearean tensions are embodied in the enormity of the Grand Tetons beneath which it unfolds

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Sean Axmaker

Turner Classic Movies Online

Jul 29, 2007

This is less Shakespeare than Hollywood melodrama in chaps and Daves was a seasoned hand at both genres.

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Hagrid S

May 16, 2018

A tiny melodrama played out beneath the towering Grand Tetons, Ford plays a wandering cowpoke taken in by warmhearted ranch owner Borgnine and is prospering except for the attentions of unhappy housewife French. On the sidelines is villain Steiger, only a little overdone, whispering treacheries. It's a competent Western, though held aloft almost entirely by the depth's portrayed by Borgnine's heroic big numbskull.

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Delmer Daves

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Glenn Ford

Jubal Troop

Ernest Borgnine

Shep Horgan

Rod Steiger

"Pinky" Pinkum

Valerie French

Mae Horgan

Felicia Farr

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Synopsis

Searching for work, cowboy Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) arrives in a small town, where he badly injures his hand. Fortunately, a local rancher, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), is willing to employ Troop despite the injury. Horgan and Troop work together amicably, but Horgan's two-timing wife (Valerie French) threatens to create discord when she becomes interested in Troop, although he really loves another woman. A jealous cowhand (Rod Steiger) complicates matters by spreading lies.

Director: Delmer Daves
Producer: William Fadiman
Screenwriter: Russell S. Hughes, Delmer Daves
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Genre: Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2010
Runtime: 1h 41m

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