Following the release of over a dozen films and just a year before the release of his pinnacle endeavor, Delmar Daves utilized his love of the Native American heritage and the never ending translation finesse of Shakespeare to come up with a new twist on the old west. Criterion is bringing his 1956 Jubal to Blu-ray this month as another of it’s Criterion classic collection. The film marks an approximate mid-point in a career that spanned three decades and saw the auteur move from actor to writer and producer/director. The film sets precedent for the more critically acclaimed films to come that would eventually earn the director his own star on the famed Hollywood Walk.
While riding through the mountains, wealthy rancher Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) encounters Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford), a wandering cowhand who can barely stand on his feet. Shep takes him back to his ranch where...
While riding through the mountains, wealthy rancher Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) encounters Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford), a wandering cowhand who can barely stand on his feet. Shep takes him back to his ranch where...
- 6/4/2013
- by Larry Peel
- IONCINEMA.com
This Entry Was Updated On February 1On the subject of somewhat forgotten actors... I'm writing to you today because it's January 31st and that was the birthday of the late James Franciscus, who would be 76 today. Probably best recalled now for only Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970), Franciscus was part of a crop of handsome TV actors (he was the original star of The Naked City TV series) in the late fifties who longed for movie star status (and likely watched with burning resentment in the sixties as Steve McQueen shot past them all). Franciscus tried for that brass ring several times (anyone remember Youngblood Hawke from 1964?) only to return again and again to series television to support his family. Jane Fonda's "first" (according to her recent autobiography), Franciscus had a reasonably successful acting career by most standards, but was reportedly bitter that he never gained real leading...
- 2/1/2010
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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