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Plot

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 best of the character-driven "psychological" westerns of the 1950s. Its only flaw is Ford's unconvincing character turnaround towards the end.
MPAA Rating:
Not Rated
Genre(s):
Westerns
Run Time:
92min.
Theatrical Release Date:
08/07/1957
DVD Release Date:
04/02/2002
Distributor(s):
Columbia Pictures
Director(s):
Delmer Daves
Starring:
Glenn Ford , Van Heflin , Felicia Farr , Leora Dana , Henry Jones
Themes:
Heroic Mission,Righting the Wronged
Tone:
Claustrophobic,Forceful,Tense,Earnest
Keywords:
bounty,captive,captor,cat-and-mouse,outlaw [Western],rancher,reward,train [locomotive]
Language:
English