3:10 To Yuma--The Epic Battle for Manhood

Ben Wade is an outlaw awaiting execution after he allows a tempting little barmaid to distract his inhibitions. As Wade is about to leave the woman's establishment, he's arrested by bounty-hunters for dozens of robberies, the most recent of an armored carriage armed with bounty-hunters and a Gatling gun. Unfortunate for Ben Wade's captors is that they are now the prey of the Wade Gang.

One such captors, local farmer Dan, a gun-for-hire, is in need of extra money the railway company is willing to pay for Ben Wade's successful transport to Yuma. Dan's a family man who witnessed his farm burnt to a crisp due lack of mortgage payments. Also, the man fought in the Civil War for the North, defending the nation's capitol. Wounded himself in the act too.

Dan not only needs the money offered by the Railway, but Dan has something to prove to himself, his family, and every conartist that ever bullied him into submission. What becomes a simple job for a hundred bucks quickly turns into an expedition for a thousand-dollar reward--dodging Apaches, chasing through rail tunnels, and fighting-off outlaws.

Slowly Ben Wade starts to like the fellow. After his second chance to leave Dan to be killed by fellow gangsters, Dan confesses the story behind his wooden leg. How he never lost it as a hero fighting Confederates, but was hit by friendly fire during a retreat. Dan asks Ben to look a son in the eye after telling a story like that.

This movie is truly a story about manhood and what it really takes. How one individual, like the charismatic Ben Wade, can woe any lady and take whatever wealth he wants with the killing-shot of a revolver, and another individual like Dan can work hard to make an honest living and receive nothing but bad debt and familial resentment. By the movie's end, it truly shows the burden men might face to prove themselves to be worth a damn.