3:10 to Yuma

A short story, and two films that end differently.

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Where to start with 3:10 to Yuma

Either film. Both come from the same Elmore Leonard short story and both keep its setup exactly: a poor rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw in a hotel room and put him on the 3:10 train to the prison at Yuma, while the outlaw's gang closes in. What they do not share is the ending, so seeing one does not tell you how the other finishes.

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    3:10 to Yuma (1957) 3:10 to Yuma

    Delmer Daves directing Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. Tight, quiet, and almost entirely two men in a room talking.

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    3:10 to Yuma (2007) 3:10 to Yuma

    James Mangold with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. Bigger, bloodier, and it adds a great deal the story does not have, including a different last ten minutes.

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    Three-Ten to Yuma (1953) Three-Ten to Yuma

    Leonard's short story, which you can read in about twenty minutes. It is sparer than either film and the thing both are working from.

Then what? There is nothing after the 2007 film. If the pairing interested you, True Grit is the other obvious case on this site of one book filmed twice, decades apart, by people with very different ideas about it.

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The Films

  • 3:10 to Yuma 1957
  • 3:10 to Yuma 2007

The Story

  • Three-Ten to Yuma 1953

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