The underlying story is made into a very watchable movie by the director and involves a ruthless but insightful gunman being held for subsequent transport by train. Marco beltrami scored five movies released in 2007. The film was originally a television pilot that appeared on the abc movie of the week. The storys subplots wandered around in discontinuity, confusing me at times and detracting from the progression of the main story to the point of nearly annoying me.
When wade is captured, civil war veteran dan evans christian bale, struggling to survive on his droughtplagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the 3. My watchlist keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. The script and dialogue are all top notch, a very nuanced character study western set within a rather simple. With glenn ford, van heflin, felicia farr, leora dana. When a reward is offered to get captured outlaw chieftain and gunman ben wade on the 3. From the opening strains of frankie laine singing the title song, the brilliant casting in stars and characters, to delmer daves trademark high camera angles, you will find it interesting from beginning to end and worth re. His walk the line 2005 won an oscar for reese witherspoon. The story by elmore leonard is rather short at around 1015 pages, and only picks up at the end of the story when our now named dan evans christian bale is. Threeten to yuma, a 1953 western short story by elmore leonard 3.
Desperate for money, frontier rancher van heflin holds outlaw. With russell crowe, christian bale, ben foster, logan lerman. In arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw ben wade crowe and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the southern railroad. Rodney dangerfield at his best on the tonight show starring johnny carson 1983 duration. Dan evans van heflin, a droughtplagued arizona rancher, volunteers to take captured stagecoach robber and murderer ben wade glenn ford from.
While both men await the train to yuma that will escort ford to prison, the cagey. Dan evans ven heflin, a quaint and well mannered farmer in need of some quick cash to alleviate the pressures of a regionwide drought, accepts a job escorting convicted murderer and. Based on a 1953 short story by elmore leonard, the film is about a droughtimpoverished rancher who takes on the risky job of escorting a notorious outlaw to justice. Threeten to yuma is a short story written by elmore leonard that was first published in dime western magazine, a 1950s pulp magazine, in march 1953. Although we enjoyed the remake, we both liked the original version better. Mangolds version is better still than the 1957 original, because it has better. He finds a financial solution for himself and his family when he is offered a large sum of money to secretly escort ben wade, the captured leader of an outlaw gang, to a nearby town and place him on board a train that will carry him to trial in yuma.
All critics 219 top critics 54 fresh 194 rotten 25 nothing terribly original happens in this remake of a 1957 semiclassic that starred glenn ford and van heflin, but everything happens smoothly and with grace. Yuma is a 1971 western television film directed by ted post and starring clint walker. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. This apparently simple mission turns into a nerveracking catandmouse game that tests each mans particular brand of honor.
A beautiful movie, almost like a poem about the west. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing 3. It is one of the very few western stories that has been adapted to the screen twice, in 1957 and in 2007. Trades in original s oldhat economic grammar and sterility for shiny, newfangled hollywood gloss and admittedly rousing spectacle. On the trail, evans and wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each others respect.
It is about a droughtimpoverished rancher bale who takes on the dangerous job of taking a notorious outlaw crowe to justice. Dan struggles with his obligations the whole movie. He carries the film on his very able shoulders, but bale gives him a good run for his money in the acting department. James mangold first came into view with an extraordinary movie named heavy 1995. Original cast and crew talks about charles laughtons the night of the hunter.
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