Word: jubal
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...JUBAL SACKETT, L'Amour...
...JUBAL SACKETT, L'Amour...
...hero of Stranger is Valentine Michael Smith, a human who, somewhat like Kipling's Mowgli, was reared from infancy by nonhumans, in his case Martians, and in the process acquired hypnotic and magical powers. He comes to earth, is tutored by a man called Jubal, then sets out as a self-styled god to save man from himself by propagating his own superior kind and gleefully dispatching those who stand in his way. Manson named an illegitimate child Valentine Michael Smith and nicknamed his parole officer Jubal. That, however, was only the beginning...
Then comes the usual mixture: one God-fearing pioneer with a bobbing adam's apple, a cross-eyed blond, and a horny cowpoke (amusingly played by Rod Steiger). And, after this, the inevitable lynching party. As reel three goes on, the question is who will save Jubal from the noose. Justice? Or indians? Or both...
...Jubal is not much like High Noon because it doesn't have any trains. And it isn't like Shane because it doesn't have a little boy. But not much else is missing...