Film Screening: 3:10 to Yuma (the Original) @ Library of Congress
May 13, 2008 by Svetlana 
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| May 15, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
free
details here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/pickford/pickford-current.html
Thursday, May 15 (7:00pm)
3:10 to Yuma (Columbia, 1957). Dir Delmer Daves. Wrt Halsted Welles, from the short story by Elmore Leonard. With Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones, Richard Jaeckel. (92 min, b&w, 35mm)
In spite of its bigger budget and considerably longer running time, the recent remake of 3:10 to Yuma could not match the taut intensity of the original. In this memorable variation on High Noon, farmer Van Heflin, desperate to pay his debts, takes on an apparently simple job: escort a smooth talking but vicious bandit Glenn Ford to the Federal Prison at Yuma. One by one, Heflin’s allies desert him as Ford’s gang draws a tight ring around the isolated town, until only the town drunk stands between him and death. 3:10 to Yuma was one of the first, and best metaphysical westerns, with plenty of action and suspense in its moral universe.
