Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and independent filmmaker.
Perhaps no other director working today has done more to keep the Western alive than James Mangold. Although he's hopped from genre to genre throughout his career, the spirit of the Western is present in films as varied as Cop Land, Walk the Line, and Logan. So it's surprising that he's only directed one proper cowboy movie: 2007's 3:10 to Yuma, a remake of a 1957 adventure yarn adapted from a short story by Elmore Leonard.
The 1957 original, directed by genre master Delmer Daves, starred Glenn Ford as the outlaw and Van Heflin as the rancher. At a brisk 92 minutes, it's a tense, psychologically complex B-movie that seems to play out almost in real time in its second half .
One of the dramatic threads in 3:10 to Yuma is Dan's struggles to earn William's respect. Having lost his foot in the war and unable to provide for his family, Dan feels constantly emasculated, and his son reinforces this by sneering at his attempts to prove himself. Throughout their trip to Contention, William is put in the middle of Ben and Dan's warring views on masculinity — tough and violent on the one hand, quiet and noble on the other.
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