Showing all next week at New York’s Film Forum is Delmer Daves’ 3:10 To Yuma (1957). Above, Daves and Glenn Ford discuss just how creepy Glenn Ford will be in the next scene. Ford, playing against type, gets all the attention, but Van Heflin is just as good as the rancher in way over his head.
Below, the US one sheet. This picture had one of the best advertising campaigns of any 50s Western. “Time for another great one…” indeed.
Surely one of the best ever, just can’t understand why someone find this movie a bit too cold.
Great musical score and lyrics “the pounding of the wheels is more like a mournful sigh” (if I well understand the lyrics, being italian), from the first guitar chord we immediately are in the mood of the movie. I know very few movies which such a significative chord, only one chord is enough and there is still the Columbia logo!
Great interpretations, charachters, B/W photography, a fairy tale out of the time, a holy movie for me. That’s the reason for I avoid to look this movie too many times, everytime I fear the next can’t be so good.
But I still can’t believe she married Jack Lemmon.
I watched this again about a year ago and felt I would have enjoyed it much more had Glenn and Van switched roles.
A high point of 50s westerns — and infinitely superior to the remake!