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Features: Special Edition, DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Mono Audio, English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled, Black & White
This fine western opens with Van Heflin as a rancher whose family is suffering from the devastating effects of a long drought. Heflin needs $200 to build a well, then learns he can obtain the money as a reward for delivering Glenn Ford, a notorious outlaw now in the hands of the law, to the state prison in Yuma, Arizona. Though this will put Heflin in great personal danger, the peaceful man accepts the assignment, knowing what the money will mean to his family. Heflin and Ford hole up in a small hotel in another town while waiting for the train to Yuma. The outlaw begins toying with Heflin's mind, talking in a friendly manner about Heflin's job and financial situation. Playing psychological games, Ford tries to convince Heflin to take $100,000 to look the other way while he escapes. Heflin finds himself in a quandary, desperately needing the money yet being bound by his word to carry out the job. Ford's gang, led by Jaeckel, discovers where their leader is hidden and sets out to rescue him. The town officials abandon Heflin rather than put themselves in danger, leaving the troubled rancher alone to face off with the outlaws. Ford ends up assisting Heflin, helping his captor on the 3:10 to Yuma, explaining, "I owed you that." Heflin has come through the ordeal, body and integrityintact, and, as if in answer to this baptism by fire, the skies burst forth with rain, putting an end to the drought.
"...always remains lively and tense." Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
"Extremely suspenseful Western, one of the best of the 1950s." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"...a landmark western, redefining what the genre was capable of doing..." TV Guide Online
Editor's Note
When stubborn farmer, Dan Evans (Ven Heflin), attempts to bring wanted criminal, Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) to the authorities in Yuma and collect the reward, he's in for quite a challenge. Desperate, the captive criminal offers the poor farmer $10,000 to set him free. While waiting for the train, the two men engage in a brutal battle of wills and as Evans eludes Wade's gang of miscreant thugs, he must fight his own moral battle and catch the 3:10 to Yuma. A poignant and chilling western, 3:10 TO YUMA evokes more thought and emotion with its timing and clever scripting than most traditional shot gun-riddled Westerns ever achieve. Director Delmer Daves teams up with pulp writer Elmore Leonard (who would go on to script GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN) to deliver this sharp and biting western classic.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Mono | | Bonus Trailers | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 3/25/2008 |
| Running Time: 92 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1957 | | Catalog ID: 21225 | | UPC: 00043396212251 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1958) | | | British Academy Awards, 3:10 to Yuma, Best Film from any Source |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"A Leonard story inspired one of the decade's best HIGH NOON imitations, bookended by Frankie Laine's memorable title tune." 01/27/2004 p.3DVariety 8 of 10
Aside from the fact that this is an upper-drawer western, 3:10 to Yuma will strike many for its resemblance to High Noon. That the climax fizzles must be laid on doorstep of Halsted Welles, who adapts Elmore Leonard's story quite well until that point...Ford's switch-casting, as the quietly sinister gang leader, is authoritative, impressive and successful. Heflin measures up fully and convincingly to the rewarding role of the proud and troubled rancher. Farr's contribution is a short one, but she registers with a touching poignancy and a delicate beauty...Title song by Ned Washington and George Duning, sung by Frankie Lane under credits and by Norma Zimmer during the picture, is a well-written tune.
FilmsGraded.com 7 of 10
It's difficult to find many flaws with 3:10 to Yuma. Sure, Ford shouldn't have lingered in Bisbee to seduce (service?) Emma, and the hired gunmen are predictably cowards. Town drunk Potter (Henry Jones) makes an unlikely transformation into a reliable hero. Ford's gang is remarkably monolithic, aside from its ubiquitous second banana (Richard Jaeckel)...Reconciling the two different Fords is a familiar task for those who recall similarly fleshed-out bad guys in Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But these characters were reckless, and for the most part, stupid...This contrasts with Ford, who does things out of deliberation, rather than desperation or adventure. Ford seems distanced from his own predicament. He's amused by it. The pieces of Ford's personality don't fit together, and it's the chief weakness of the film. - Brian Koller
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