3:10 to Yuma

“The lonesome whistle of a train... bringing the gallows closer to a desperado... the showdown nearer to his captor!”

Dan Evans (Van Heflin) is a small-time farmer who needs money badly and takes a job nobody else will touch. He is to escort the outlaw Ben Wade (Glenn Ford) to Yuma and put him on the 3:10 train. Delmer Daves keeps the two men in close quarters while Wade's gang rides hard behind them, and the dread builds on the long wait for the train.