Leonard Maltin (from his blog) on the restored print of Jubal screened at the TCM Classic Film Festival —
“Later that day I introduced a new 35mm print of Delmer Daves’ 1956 western Jubal. Sony’s Senior Vice President of Restoration, Grover Crisp, explained that it was only in recent years, with digital processes, that he and his team were able to restore the faded color and remove the deep scratches that existed in the original materials on this entertaining film. They also slightly shrank the extra-wide 2:55:1 widescreen image to fit into today’s conventional 2:35:1 CinemaScope frame. I was even more impressed with the original three-channel stereophonic sound, which showed off David Raksin’s score wonderfully well. After the screening I interviewed the indestructible 93-year-old Ernest Borgnine, who had fond memories of filming on location in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and great fondness for writer-director Daves. We talked about his career in general, and Borgnine completely charmed the audience.”
Interesting to hear about the new print, but I can’t say that bit about shrinking the image to fit a 2.35:1 frame fills me with any enthusiasm.
That scared me a bit, too. But those earlier Scope pictures seem to have enough dead space on the outer edges to give up a bit.
I’m gonna stay optimistic. For now.
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Is Jubal the Shane’s continuation? See the end of Shane and the start of Jubal (the Grand Tettons are the location of the two movies). And the past of Jubal is like the recent past of Shane.
Afonso, et al, that is a very interesting thought and I see how the two films could fit together like two jigsaw puzzle pieces. Maybe you were mostly facetious but very observant. However, if you use the books from which the two films came note that Jack Schaefer wrote SHANE and Paul Wellman wrote the book, JUBAL TROOP. So, just coincidence I think.
Moe Wadle, it really is more a joke. The two stories are different and I just made a connection, the coincidence of the locations of the two films (Wyoming), and the fact that Shane ends with the hero, wounded, disappearing in the mountains and Jubal begins with the hero, rolling down a mountain, seeking help. And yet, Jubal and Shane are very similar in character, behavior, and skill at arms.