Guest Author - Terry L Kosse
3:10 to Yuma is one of those westerns that you will just absolutely love. Great cast aside it is just a good movie. Of course I do find these kinds of movies hard to watch over and over. Without giving the ending away I won’t say why.
This movie is about a legendary outlaw, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his gang who has just robbed a railroad for its payroll. After a small shoot out, the lone survivor, a Pinkerton guard, Bryon McElroy (Peter Fonda) stumbles onto a poor rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) and his two sons, William (Logan Lerman) and Mark (Benjamin Petry). Having been shot in the stomach Dan and his boys take Mr. Elroy to a small town doctor in Bisbee, Arizona.
Soon Dan Evans finds himself tangled up in the capture and return of this famous outlaw. Needing money to save his farm he just can’t seem to resist the temptation of bringing Mr. Wade to justice. Dan finds himself in a battle of doing what is best for his family and proving to his sons that he is brave enough to bring this man to justice. Dan finally gets Ben to the train in Yuma but pays the ultimate price for doing so. His son learns the hard lesson for his father’s bravery.
This is a great movie with great acting and if you enjoy westerns at all you will surely like this. Here are the mistakes I found.
At the beginning of the movie Dan’s son lights a match to see in the dark the match burns much to slowly for an actual match. Then when he does put it out only the tip is burned.
When Ben and Dan are going from the hotel to the train depot, there is a scene where you can see the sky, at that time it is completely overcast. All the other scenes with them going it is sunny and clear.
In the fight scene with the railroad workers one of the workers has a badge that keeps moving from the left side of his shirt to the right side of his shirt.
Towards the end of the movie when Ben and Dan are at the train station it shows Ben putting on his hat twice in two separate scenes preparing to leave for the train.
If you haven’t watched a really good western in a while give this one a try, it just might make you a fan.
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