欧宝娱乐

I have only read the title story, but I have a feeling the rest of the stories in this collection are very entertaining as well. Elmore Leonard penned these in the early fifties. This book caught my eye a few weeks ago while I was shelving books at the store where I work. The cover makes use of the colors of the desert.
I mentioned the book to a friend before I bought it and he said there's been a good movie called THE 3:10 TO YUMA in the fifties. The next day I heard that Russell Crowe's new movie was going to be called THE 3:10 TO YUMA, so I said to myself "I'd better read this before my friend shows me the old movie and before the new one comes out."
The short story is only about twelve pages long but it is crisp, to the point and enjoyable. It's just the story of like-minded people on opposite sides of the law.
I saw the new movie a few nights ago. I thought it was powerful, but, as Elmore Leonard points out in an interview he did after a screening, some of the dialogue is strictly Post- World War Two. The characters would not have used certain expressions because these expressions didn't exist at the time the story takes place. Some of the alterations undercut the story's humor. But, for a really good insight into how a piece of writing translates (Ultimately successfully) to cinema, read the story AND see the movie.
Again, I haven't read the other stories in the collection, but the main story itself is worth the very small price you'll pay for this paperback.