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3:10 to Yuma is a 1957 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Based on a 1953 short story by Elmore Leonard, it is about a drought-impoverished rancher who takes on the risky job of escorting a notorious outlaw to justice.
3:10 to Yuma. In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glenn Ford) to the train that will deliver him to prison.
- Ben Wade
Aug 18, 2022 · 3:10 to Yuma, Delmer Daves, Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Elmore Leonard, 1957, 50s, western, black and white, 720p. Language. English. Classic Delmer Daves western. Addeddate.
- 92 min
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"Three-Ten to Yuma" is a short story written by Elmore Leonard that was first published in Dime Western Magazine, a 1950s pulp magazine, in March 1953. It is one of the very few Western stories to have been adapted to the screen twice, in 1957 and in 2007.
As rancher Dan Evans and his young sons, Mathew and Mark, watch helplessly, outlaw Ben Wade and his gang rob the Butterfield stage and kill its driver, Bill Moons. After the charming yet deadly Wade confiscates Dan and his sons' horses, Mark asks his father why he failed to resist the outlaws.
- Delmer Daves, Sam Nelson
- Glenn Ford
RELEASED IN 1957 and directed by Delmer Daves, "3:10 to Yuma” is a Western about a struggling Arizona rancher, Dan Evans (Van Heflin), who has no choice but to hire-on as an escort of dangerous, but charismatic outlaw, Ben Wade (Glenn Ford).
May 14, 2013 · It is behind the curious distances between people, the sense of lives lived at a remove from those of others. And it informs the beauty and power of those remarkably expressive high-angle boom shots for which Daves became known, and which are a particular characteristic of this film’s signature.
