Later, one of the men the bristling and randy Webb Garwood (Van Heflin) comes back for a courtesy call that results in a big affair and, unsurprisingly, a case of homicide.

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Adapted from an early short story by Elmore Leonard that was previously filmed very capably in 1957 with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, "3:10 to Yuma" strikes a fair balance between physical action and psychological warfare, but always at its core is the question of how we are to measure these two men.

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