The Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC will run Delmer Daves’ 3:10 To Yuma (1957) on June 7, 2013. Is seven months enough advance notice?
If you’re the type that passes through this blog, I don’t have to tell you this is one of the crown jewels of 50s Westerns. Glenn Ford and Van Heflin were never better — and you’ll never look at Ford quite the same way again.
Also running that night is Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter (1973), a film that seems to be getting a bit of a reappraisal of late. It deserves it. Though I’ve seen both of these films many, many times, this will be my first time in a theater. What a treat.
Such a great movie – at least you have time to make arrangements in advance!
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER is an interesting Western, and one of the better ones of the 70s, but I’d say it’s going to suffer if it runs second here.
“One of the crown jewels of 50s Westerns” says it very well of 3:10 TO YUMA–Toby, I can tell you if they show restoration Columbia/Sony did a few years ago of this they did a beautiful job, really captured the original black and white tones of this richly beautiful movie. I’m glad for you that you will have this chance to see it in a theatre at last.
Can hear that great, deep and virile Frankie Laine voice soulfully belting out the great title song now (first line below starts right over the Columbia logo, as probably everyone here knows):
“There is a lonely train called the 3:10 to Yuma…
the pounding of the wheels is more like a mournful sigh…”
(and so it goes…)
I remember that there were complaints at the time (1957) regarding the difference between the title song lyrics on the soundtrack of “The 3:10 to Yuma” and the version released on record. People who went to see the film and who loved the title song sung by Frankie Laine, went out and bought Frankie’s single of it, only to find that the record version had different lyrics to the far superior ones heard on the film.