Gail Russell as Annie Greer Lee Marvin as Bill Masters Walter Reed as John Greer John Larch as Payte Bodeen (1 of the seven men) Don 'Red' Barry as Clete (Bill Master's guy) Fred Graham as Henchman (1 of the seven men) John Beradino as Clint (1 of the seven men) John Phillips as Jed (1 of the seven men) Chuck Roberson as Mason (1 of the seven men) Stuart Whitman as Cavalry Lt. Collins Pamela Duncan as Señorita Nellie Steve Mitchell as Fowler (1 of the seven men) Cliff Lyons as Henchman (1 of the seven men) Chet Brandenburg as Townsman (uncredited) Chick Hannan as Townsman (uncredited) Cap Somers as Townsman (uncredited) George Sowards as Stage Driver (uncredited) Fred Sherman as The Prospector Production John Wayne and Robert Fellows's production company Batjac purchased the Burt Kennedy screenplay with the intention of having Wayne star as Stride. It was Kennedy's first film script. However, Wayne was locked into doing The Searchers for John Ford. According to Kennedy, Wayne wasn't particularly interested in the script until he became aware that Robert Mitchum's representatives were interested in it, at which point Wayne perked up and suggested going to Warners and casting Randolph Scott instead. Scott insisted on Budd Boetticher as the director. As with their previous collaboration, Bullfighter and the Lady, Wayne, in his role as producer, recut Seven Men From Now without Boetticher's approval, although it has since been restored to the director's original vision. Seven Men from Now was the first in a seven-film collaboration between Scott, Boetticher, and producer Harry Joe Brown, with five of the films written by Kennedy. The movie was shot in the Alabama Hills and other locations near Lone Pine, California in the last months of 1955. Gail Russell was cast as the female lead due to her previous work with Wayne in Angel and the Badman and Wake of the Red Witch, in which Wayne's wife at the time accused them of having an affair (denied by both and rejected by the court during Wayne's divorce proceedings). She had not worked on a movie for nearly five years prior to Seven Men from Now, due to her struggles with stage-fright-induced alcoholism. Boetticher worked very hard to keep her from drinking during the filming. See also List of American films of 1956 References External links 1956 Western (genre) films 1956 films American Western (genre) films