3:10 to Yuma (1957)

Directed by

Delmer Daves

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 423 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An impoverished rancher agrees to escort a captured outlaw to the train that will take him to prison. The outlaw schemes to escape, and the rancher must fight to keep him in custody until the train arrives.

tensegrittydeliberatemorally complexsuspensefulbleakcharacter-driven

What happens

3:10 to Yuma is a 1957 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Based on a 1953 short story of the same name by Elmore Leonard, the plot concerns an impoverished rancher who takes on the risky job of escorting a notorious outlaw to justice. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States on the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film was remade in 2007, directed by James Mangold and starring Russell Crowe with Christian Bale. The title song, "The 3:10 to Yuma", was written by George Duning (music) and Ned Washington (lyrics), and sung at the beginning and end of the film by the noted pop singer Frankie Laine (1913–2007), who also did several other popular Western film and television musical theme songs. He recorded the song for Columbia Records also in 1957 with the Jimmy Carroll Orchestra when the feature film was released, and later repeated in 1960 with the Johnny Williams Orchestra (future famous film music theme composer, born 1932). It was also recorded again seven years later by Sandy Denny in 1967 for Island Records. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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