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3:10 to Yuma
Theatrical poster
Directed byJames Mangold
Written byScreenplay:
Stuart Beattie
Story:
Michael Brandt
Derek Haas
Short Story:
Elmore Leonard
StarringRussell Crowe
Christian Bale
CinematographyPhedon Papamichael
Distributed byLions Gate Entertainment
Release dateSeptember 7 2007
Running time120 min.
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million

3:10 to Yuma is a 2007 Western film that is a remake of the 1957 film 3:10 to Yuma, making it the second adaptation of Elmore Leonard's short story. It is directed by James Mangold and stars Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. Filming took place in various locations in New Mexico. 3:10 to Yuma opened September 7, 2007, in the United States.


Plot

Outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his friends have been behind over 20 major robberies on the Southern Pacific Railroad in 19th-century Arizona. After orchestrating a vicious attack on an armored carriage, Wade is confronted by Dan Evans (Christian Bale), a down-on-his-luck rancher and Civil War veteran with a wooden leg whose cattle were used by Wade as a diversion in the attack. Wade leaves Evans and his two sons and travels to the town of Bisbee, Arizona, where Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), Wade's right-hand man, tells the railroad police that Wade has committed a robbery. The guards all ride out to investigate, leaving Wade and his gang in peace for a drink at the bar.

The railroad guards find Evans and his sons as well as the only survivor of the attack, bounty hunter Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda). Upon learning from Evans that Wade had headed off in the direction of Bisbee, the company returns with Evans and McElroy. McElroy's wound is treated by Doc Potter (Alan Tudyk) while Evans pleads with the man who is taking his land to no avail. He grabs his rifle and storms into a bar looking for him, but instead finds Wade, who was upstairs romancing the barmaid. Evans stalls Wade long enough for the railroad guards to burst in and arrest him.

Evans agrees to help escort Wade to a prison train (the 3:10 to Yuma) for a $200 reward. Wade's gang inflicts casualties on the guards, but Wade is successfully transported to Evans's ranch, where he is to wait for an hour while his gang follows a decoy wagon. He is also accompanied by McElroy, Potter, and two railroad guards. Evans's teenage son William (Logan Lerman) wants to come along, but his father adamantly refuses.

The first night of the journey, Wade kills Tucker (Kevin Durand), the guard on the night shift, with a fork that he stole during dinner at the Evans home. Later, when McElroy insults Wade's mother, and in the process gets too close to Wade's horse, the outlaw wrestles him to the ground and takes his gun. Telling McElroy, "I've always liked you Byron, but you never did know when to shut up. Even bad men love their mommas," he pushes him off of a cliff and is holding the other three men at gunpoint when Evans's son shows up with a gun and forces Wade to surrender. The group is attacked by Apache Indians in the night, and Evans is wounded, but Wade defeats the attackers.

In wake of the shootout with the Apache, Wade escapes with the horses, and happens across a construction crew blasting a rail tunnel through a mountain range using Chinese laborers. The foreman recognizes Wade as his brother's killer and has him tortured with electrical shocks, but when Evans, his son, Potter, and Grayson Butterfield (Dallas Roberts, the other railroad guard) show up , they demand the foreman turn Wade over to them. When they are refused, Potter decks the foreman with a shovel and the group flees with Wade on their horses. While Potter is exulting in his success, he is fatally shot from behind; Wade and Evans bring the cavern wall behind them down with explosives and finally make it to Contention, where the train will be stopping. They check into a hotel and are joined by a few local marshals. They can do nothing but wait for the train to arrive.

Prince has eventually found out where his boss is by capturing a passenger of the decoy wagon, and he rides into town with six other gang members. To increase the odds against Evans and the others, Prince offers the townsfolk a $200 cash reward for killing Wade's captors. The marshals surrender to Prince, only to be gunned down. Butterfield refuses to go through with the mission, leaving only Evans and his son left to escort Wade to the train. Evans, however, instructs Butterfield to take his son home after making the railroad man agree to pay his wife $1000 and to pay off the man who has been trying to steal his land. Butterfield agrees if Evans can get Wade on the train.

Evans takes Wade and leaves the hotel. The two sprint through hails of gunfire and find refuge in a storeroom after an extended shootout that results in many enemy casualties and a gunshot wound to Evans' arm. Inside, Wade tries to strangle Evans with his handcuffs. While being strangled, Evans explains to Wade that he really lost his leg because one of his own men shot it, and and tells Wade to tell that to his sons and see the way they look at him. Upon hearing this, Wade relents and agrees to go to the train. The two make it to the station and barricade themselves inside. During this time, Wade tells Evans that he has been to Yuma twice and escaped both times. The gunmen set up positions around the station as the train approaches. William, having followed the action, provides a distraction by stampeding a herd of cattle that trample Prince underfoot and provide enough cover for Evans to get Wade to the train. Wade is put on board, congratulates Evans, but then sees Prince approaching and tries to cry out for Prince to hold his fire. However, Prince shoots Evans point-blank several times.

Wade climbs out of the train and Prince says, "For a one-legged rancher he sure was a tough son-of-a-bitch." Prince tosses Wade's gun to him, then turns to the rest of the gang. Sensing something is wrong because of his boss's silence, Prince turns around but Wade draws and fires, killing every member of his gang. William runs to his dying father's side to comfort him, then points a gun at Wade but does not pull the trigger. Wade somberly gets on the train and rides away on it, looking distressed. But then he whistles to his horse, which runs after the train.

Cast

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Doc Potter (Alan Tudyk), Dan Evans (Christian Bale), Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda), and Grayson Butterfield (Dallas Roberts) in a scene from 3:10 to Yuma. Photo credit: Richard Foreman / Lionsgate

Production

In June 2003, Columbia Pictures hired director James Mangold to helm a remake of the 1957 Western film 3:10 to Yuma, based on a script written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. After being apart from the project for several years, Mangold resumed his role as director in February 2006 for 3:10 to Yuma, based on a new draft by screenwriter Stuart Beattie, who rewrote the scripts by Brandt and Haas. Production was slated to begin in summer 2006. In the same month, actor Tom Cruise expressed an interest in starring as the villain in the film. Eric Bana also briefly sought a role in the film.

In summer 2006, Columbia placed the film on turnaround, and the project was acquired by Relativity Media. Actors Russell Crowe and Christian Bale were cast into 3:10 to Yuma, and Relativity began seeking a distributor for the film. By September, Lions Gate Entertainment signed on to distribute the film. Later in the month, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, and Vinessa Shaw were cast. Filming was slated to begin on October 23, 2006 in New Mexico. On the first day of filming, a rider and his horse were seriously injured in a scene when the horse ran directly into a camera-carrying vehicle instead of veering off as planned. The rider was hospitalized, and the horse had to be euthanized on the set. The animal's death prompted an investigation from the American Humane Association. By November, the AHA concluded its investigation, finding that the horse did not respond properly having received a dual training approach and the horse being unfamiliar to the rider. The organization recommended no charges against the producers. Principal photography took place in and around Santa Fe, Abiquiú, and Galisteo. The Bonanza Creek Ranch represented the film's town of Bisbee as a "kinder, gentler frontier town" while Galisteo was set up to be Contention (now a ghost town), a "much rougher, bawdier, kind of sin city". Filming concluded on January 20, 2007.

After filming concluded, the owners of the Cerro Pelon Ranch petitioned to keep a $2 million expansion to the movie set on their property, which was supposed to be dismantled within 90 days. The set of 3:10 to Yuma made up 75% of the overall sets on the ranch. In April 2007, the request was met by the county's development review committee to keep the expansion, which would potentially generate revenue in the future.

Although the film's time period is never explicitly stated, the story can be presumed to occur after 1875. Prince's handguns are Schofield Model 3s, which were not introduced until that year.

Release

3:10 to Yuma was originally slated for an October 5 2007 release, but Lionsgate moved the film's release a month earlier to September 7 2007 to beat competing Western films The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men. As a result of the move, the studio will not be able to use the Toronto Film Festival as a platform for the film's release, but it will be released before a cluster of films similarly vying for awards. According to Lionsgate president Tom Ortenberg, "In what is shaping up to be a very impressive and crowded field of upscale commercial motion pictures this fall, we wanted to be one of the first ones out, so that everything else will be measured against us." Lionsgate has an awards campaign planned to promote 3:10 to Yuma, and the earlier theatrical run will position it for a prominent DVD release in the first week of January, during awards seasons. Lionsgate similarly planned this strategy for Crash (2004), which won the Oscar for Best Picture that year.

Box office performance

3:10 to Yuma debuted in the United States and Canada on September 7 2007 in 2,652 theaters. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $14,035,033 and ranked #1 at the U.S. and Canadian box office. As of September 23 2007, 3:10 to Yuma has grossed an estimated $37,911,000 in the United States and Canada and $1,669,008 in other territories for a worldwide total of $39,580,008 .

Critical reaction

As of September 23, 2007 on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, 87% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 165 reviews. On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 76 out of 100, based on 37 reviews.

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