Still less does Alice see why her transplanted Eastern husband should risk his life as a volunteer. Dan fears he has lost the confidence of wife Alice ( Gretchen Mol) and teenage son Will ( Logan Lerman), who doubt he can make the ranch work. train has a cell in its mail car that will transport Wade to the prison in Yuma and a certain death sentence.īoth Dan and Ben have elements in their characters that come under test in this adventure. Through a series of developments that seem almost dictated by fate, Dan Evans finds himself as part of a posse sworn in to escort Wade, captured and handcuffed, to the nearby town of Contention, where the 3:10 p.m.
The territory still fears Indian raids, and just as much the lawless gang led by Ben Wade ( Russell Crowe), which sticks up stagecoaches, robs banks, casually murders people and outguns any opposition. It's going badly, made worse by a neighboring bully who wants to force him off his land.
A man named Dan Evans ( Christian Bale), who lost a leg in the Civil War, has come to the Arizona territory to try his luck at ranching. The plot is so easily told that Elmore Leonard originally wrote it as a short story.
