The Western is a genre I enjoy although there hasn’t been many great offerings recently. With a stellar cast of Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Gretchen Mol and Peter Fonda the latest Western ’3:10 to Yuma’ looks like it has a lot of promise. Film buffs will realize that ’3:10 to Yuma’ is a remake of the that starred Glenn Ford and Van Heflin and directed by Delmer Daves in 1957.

Although it will be hard to live up to the original it will be interesting to see what is done with the ’07 version of ’3:10 to Yuma’. The film portrays outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale) struggling to survive in a draught plagued ranch. The film is due for an October 5th release.