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Desperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward. While both men await the train to Yuma that will escort Ford to prison, the cagey outlaw offers Heflin $10,000 if he'll set Ford free. The rest of the film is a sweat-inducing cat-and-mouse game between captive and captor, interrupted with bursts of violence from both Ford's gang (commandeered by Richard Jaeckel) and the vacillating townsfolk. 3:10 to Yuma is one of the
Aug 7, 1957 Wide
Apr 2, 2002
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (2) | DVD (17)
That the climax fizzles must be laid on doorstep of Halsted Welles, who adapts Elmore Leonard's story quite well until that point.
This is a first-rate action picture -- a respectable second section to High Noon.
Despite an abundance of talk, this 1957 film is often considered [Daves'] best.
A portrait of storytelling made for and by the Silent Generation, an audience all too familiar with the world's spooky, white-knuckled moral twilight.
The film is something of a classic and boasts a terrific ending.
Although not as nerve-wracking as High Noon, 3:10 to Yuma is even more claustrophobic… and the two-character drama is more intriguing than High Noon's protagonist standing alone.
No amount of climactic train smoke can mask the fact that the finale is fancifully optimistic gibberish.
The new 3:10 to Yuma will have to be quite a film to stand up to the original.
It's nice to have Delmer Daves's solid western on DVD, even this special edition is just a throwaway portion of its remake's promotional machine.
A sturdy genre piece.
The minutes tick toward 3:10, and all we can do is watch and hope that it all turns out ok. That's the best kind of Western, one that allows feelings like that to emerge while watching.
Though it is masterful in stretches, it ultimately mistakes feel-good qualities for truly satisfying ones.
Although it didn't receive any major awards, 3:10 To Yuma is considered one of the best westerns of the 1950s.
Set during a drought in the empty, parched West, this is a film defined by emptiness and dust, its players alone and vulnerable in the eerie landscape.
Much more human than the remake, I thought, and to the good, it's 20 minutes shorter. I say it's a good thing because this is a movie based on an Elmore Leonard story. James Mangold, in his remake, would do well to take the author's advice and "leave out the parts readers [viewers] tend to skip." I found Van Heflin
September 29, 2007Super Reviewer
Near perfect psychological western. Great confrontational scenes between Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, and pure suspense from start to finish.
April 19, 2009Super Reviewer
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