After outlaw leader Ben Wade is captured in a small town, his gang continue to threaten. Small-time rancher Dan Evans is persuaded to take Wade in secret to the nearest town with a railway station to await the train to the court at Yuma.

One of the greatest westerns of an era where the genre got darker and more serious. A gripping, empathetic character study of morality and violence under pressure, screenwriter-turned-filmmaker Daves creates room to relish Glenn Ford’s sinister villain as much as the world’s innate human decency.