With the removie of due out on video any day I thought I’d prepare by watching and reviewing the original movie done fifty years ago. “3:10 to Yuma” was a Columbia Picture,
shot in black and white, something I really like, and lasting 91 minutes, also something I like. I tend to think current directs exaggerate their importance by making movies far longer than they
need to be. A tagline describes the movie, “the Lonesome Whistle of a Train… bringing the gallows closer to a desperado–the showdown nearer to his captor!” What a
thriller this movie promises to be. Major stars and the threat of violence heightened by a time deadline. Everyone knows something will happen before 3:10. . . . .
. . . Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) is the leader of an outlaw gang operating in Arizona Territory. When he is captured after a stage robbery local authorities know his gang will return and destroy
the town to save him. Dan Evans (Van Heflin), is promised a reward to get him to the 3:10 train to Yuma where Wade will be tried and imprisoned. The movie is the story of Wade and Evans. Wade
calmly waits for his gang to arrive, Evans becomes increasingly nervous as the deadline approaches.
