"3:10 To Yuma" directed by James Mangold [review]
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2008-02-14
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Prescott, Nicholas Adrian
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Fifty years ago, Elmore Leonard (these days most revered as a crime writer, whose novels include Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Killshot, which has also just been filmed) wrote a short story called 3:10 to Yuma. It centred around the struggle to escort a nasty stagecoach-robber and gunslinger, Ben Wade (here played by Russell Crowe) to a train that would transport him to Yuma prison. Delmer Daves directed a film version in 1957 which starred Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, and which was well-received as a decent Western made during the classical Hollywood cycle. These days of course, really good, traditional Westerns are few and far between, but James Mangold’s updating and remake of Leonard’s story proves to be a terrific return to this tried and true genre. Mainly for lads it may well be, but it’s a hell of a pic if you fit the demographic.
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Radio, ABC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Review, Film, Movie, Nick Prescott
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Prescott, Nick. 2008. Review of "3:10 to Yuma", directed by James Mangold. 891 ABC Adelaide website.