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What does the '3:10' in the title of the film stand for?


Could someone please tell me

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3:10 is the time the train arrives at the station in Contention City where they are putting Ben Wade on the train to Yuma Prison

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It's actually the time the train leaves. As in, "We're taking the 3:10 to Yuma."

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It must be bliss to be unencumbered by any semblance of a brain.

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HA HA HA HA HA that!

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LOL ..... well said sir

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Smart enough to bait you.

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then they indeed are a master baiter

What the $%*& is a Chinese Downhill?!?

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lmao. Amen
I couldn't believe what I'd read.

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I can't believe someone actually had to ask what 3:10 means.

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How hard is it to be intellectually charitable or emotionally graceful and imagine that the comment was written by a rational person? I can imagine a rational person who'd driven all their lives, never had the need to take a train, never overheard people talking about catching a train, and had never seen this movie.

In those circumstances it's a valid and sound question.

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You forgot to add or if he'd just landed from the Planet Doofus.

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given the large amount of scripture I would suggest looking up scripture 3:10?

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It was the half-time score in the classic 1853 rugby match between the Bisbee Posse (3) and the Yuma Outlaws (10). *SPOILER ALERT* Yuma went on to win the match 11:59 ("high noon", in rugby terms).

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I giggled at the 310 yumans comment, but ya like the one of the poster already said: time the train arrives

"What if that thing I just said?" - Philip J. Fry (Futurama)

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Three-ten refers to the price of the Russell Crowe version of the film by mid-summer. You can go to Wal-Mart and pay three dollars and ten cents for it, and they won't even charge you tax.

"When you throw dirt, you lose ground" --old proverb

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you could also say it has bible refrences aswell..or just be simple and say it is the time they needed to get their ass to the train.

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It's just a time. The bible reference sucks... It says something about cows and wine. (Proverbs, since that is what Ben quotes...)

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could make some sense though, if you pay respect to the lord you will be given back in return. Which is what Ben does towards our "hero" and vice versa.

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Someone told me that the 3:10 stands for three feet, ten inches, which is the precise drop of a hangman's rope, just enough drop to execute the condemned instantly, and not enough drop to gruesomely partially sever the head from the body.

Now, anyone care to buy a certain bridge I've got for sale?

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Oh my God. Please don't answer this person in case the vacuum in their head sucks out all your intelligence when you engage with them.

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