3:10 to Yuma

[Tex Pete]

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[Macanudo]

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[LCHorn]

Random thought: almost every Steven Seagal movie is a western, if you look at the tropes of the genre.

 

[SCVHorn]

I just saw this one last week. I would say that there's more than just the money for the family as the reason why Crowe's character got on the train.

He respected Bale's character as a man trying to be a father in desperate times. There's that moment when Bale tells him the real story of how he lost his lower leg--he can't tell the truth to his boys--it's got to be more heroic than that--and yet his oldest son still doesn't respect him.

Yes, I believe Crowe fully intended to get off the train or escape--but he wanted the boy to be able to go back and tell the story of how his dad got the most famous criminal on the train for prison. Thus Dad really was somebody to look up to.

Just MHO.

 

[Tex Pete]

In the older version, the criminal says, "Hell, I've broken out of Yuma before. I'll break out this time, too."