Jubal is a 1956 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerie French, and Felicia Farr. Shot in CinemaScope, it has been described as "one of the new wave of adult westerns that flourished in the fifties" and as "an Othello on the Range." The supporting cast features Noah Beery Jr., Charles Bronson and Jack Elam.
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Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) is found lying in the road in a weakened condition, without a horse. Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) takes him to his ranch, where one of his workers Pinky (Rod Steiger), accuses Jubal of smelling of sheep dip and burns his clothes after Jubal falls asleep in a bunk.
Horgan is married to an attractive, younger woman named Mae (Valerie French) whom he met in Canada. He offers Jubal a job after seeing him ride an unbroken horse. Meantime, Pinky forces Mae to kiss him saying they used to do this when Horgan was away. Horgan is impressed with Jubal's work ethic and makes him foreman over the other cowhands which antagonises Pinky, whom Horgan does not trust.
Jubal fends off Mae's advances while developing an interest in Naomi (Felicia Farr), a young woman from a travelling wagon train of an unnamed religious group that the cowboys call "rawhiders." Pinky and the other cowboys try to run off the strangers but Jubal says they cause no trouble so they can stay. Jubal's ally is a drifter named Reb (Charles Bronson), who has attached himself to the wagon train. On Jubal's recommendation Reb is hired to help him at the ranch.
