History Film / ThreeTenToYuma1957

''3:10 to Yuma'' is a 1957 {{Western}} film directed by Creator/DelmerDaves, starring Creator/GlennFord, Van Heflin, and Felicia Farr.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DeterminedHomesteadersWife: Zig-zagged in the case of Dan's wife Alice. At the beginning she isn't determined at all, and this trope is clearly averted. Alice complains about how hard life has been and how much they've had to struggle and pesters Dan to get a loan which might help bail them out of trouble. Later, when Dan is about to go out on what seems likely to be a fatal march with Ben Wade, this trope is played more straight. Alice intercepts Dan, begging him to stop, telling him not to risk his life over anything she said the day before. She insists that she's loved their life, even with the hardships and struggles.

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''3:10 to Yuma'' is a 1957 {{Western}} film directed by Creator/DelmerDaves, starring Creator/GlennFord and Van Heflin.

Dan Evans (Heflin) is a rancher in the Arizona Territory of TheWildWest sometime in the latter 19th century. His ranch is not doing very well, mostly due to a three-year drought that is slowly killing off his cattle. There are tensions at home, as his wife Alice, who came from money, is growing weary of their hardscrabble life.

While driving his remaining cattle back to his ranch, along with his sons, Dan encounters a stagecoach, and a gang of bandits led by notorious outlaw Ben Wade (Ford). Wade lets Evans and his boys go but does kill the stagecoach driver and abscond with the gold on the stagecoach. The gang rides to Bisbee, but Wade is captured when he lingers in the town to enjoy a roll in the hay with a barmaid. When a $200 reward is offered to whoever will take Wade onto the eponymous train to Yuma, Evans volunteers -- but Wade's men are on the way back to free their leader.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Apparently Wade has indulged in expensive hookers.
--> "I spent $300 in one night on Velvet."
** Later Wade makes a snarky comment about the "Bridal Suite" room where he's being held.
--> "This is the Bridal Suite. Huh, I wonder how many brides have...well."

* TheDragon: Charlie Prince, Wade's sidekick, who is the man sleeping on the hotel couch, and the man who leads the gang back into town to free Wade.

--> "Alex, will you let me finish? Then you can agree."

* IOweYouMyLife: Evans, through sheer bravery and some lucky breaks--once passing by with a herd of cattle, once using a horse for a shield--makes it to the train station alive, with Wade. But Wade's gang finally corners him at the train tracks. As the train starts to pull away, Charlie Prince tells Wade to duck, so they can shoot Evans and free him. Instead Wade tells Evans to get on the train with him, and they both jump into a baggage car. As the train pulls away a shocked Evans asks Wade why. WorthyOpponent is clearly a factor here, but Wade also says that he saved Evans' life because Evans saved Wade's life when Ben Moons barged into the hotel room and tried to kill him. (Also, Wade remains confident that the gang will liberate him at some later date.)

Based on the short story "Three-Ten to Yuma" by Creator/ElmoreLeonard. In 2007 a [[TheRemake remake]] with [[Film/ThreeTenToYuma the same title]] came out, starring Creator/RussellCrowe and Creator/ChristianBale in the roles originated by Ford and Heflin.

''3:10 to Yuma'' is a 1957 {{Western}} film directed by Creator/DelmerDaves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin.

* IOweYouMyLife: Evans, through sheer bravery and some lucky breaks--once passing by with a herd of cattle, once using a horse for a shield--makes it to the train station alive, with Wade. But Wade's gang finally corners him at the train tracks. As the train starts to pull away, Charlie Prince tells Wade to duck, so they can shoot Evans and free him. Instead Wade tells Evans to get on the train with him, and they both jump into a baggage car. As the train pulls away a shocked Evans asks Wade why. WorthyOpponent is clearly a factor here, but Wade also says that he saved Evans' life because Evans saved Wade's life when Ben Moons barged into the hotel room and tried to kill him.

''3:10 to Yuma'' is a 1957 {{Western}} film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin.

'''''3:10 to Yuma''''' is a 1957 {{Western}} film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin.

'''''3:10 to Yuma''''' is a 1957 {{Western}} film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Creator/GlennFord and Van Heflin.

While driving his remaining cattle back to his ranch, along with his sons, Dan encounters a stagecoach, and a gang of bandits led by notorious outlaw Ben Wade (Ford). Wade lets Evans and his boys go but does kill the stagecoach driver and abscond with the gold on the stagecoach. The gang rides to Bisbee, but Wade is captured when he lingers in the town to enjoy a roll in the hay with a barmaid. When a $200 reward is offered to whoever will take Wade onto the eponymous train to Yuma, Evans volunteers--but Wade's men are on the way back to free their leader.

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''3:10 to Yuma'' is a 1957 film directed by Delmer Daves, starring Creator/GlennFord and Van Heflin.