Gripping story with well-crafted characters

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Seven men rob Wells Fargo, steal a lot of gold, and kill Ben Stride's wife in the process. He sets out to avenge her death, and while he is at it, he retrieves the gold as well. Justice is served. But there is another injustice that has to be addressed in this movie.When Stride first happens across John Greer and his wife Annie, we can see right off that this guy is a wimp, and we wonder how he ever got himself a wife like Annie. Even when she falls in the mud, she oozes sex appeal. Later, when they are joined by Bill Masters and his partner Clete, Masters poses the question to Clete as to why a full woman like Annie would settle for half a man. He is right. Greer just does not deserve Annie.A man like Masters is the sort who cannot help stepping on something little, so one night while Stride, Greer, Annie, and Masters are inside the covered wagon, Masters starts talking about how deliciously desirable Annie is, practically ravishing her with his words, while her husband, who is being verbally cuckolded, just sits there and takes it. Masters also talks about how he once knew another woman like Annie, who eventually ran off with a real man, suggesting that she has a thing for Stride. And apparently she does, because later when Stride says goodbye to her, she moves in to be kissed, although Stride does not avail himself of the opportunity. For one thing, he is a recent widower, and for another, he is too upright to take another man's wife.We know that Stride will eventually kill all the men who stole the gold and caused his wife's death, because that is routine for a Western. It is the injustice of Greer's being married to Annie that worries us, for there is no standard convention for handling that situation. When Stride discovers that Greer had been hired by the robbers to transport the gold, he takes the box of gold away from Greer and tells him and Annie to go west. We get a sinking feeling. The wrong will never be righted. Fortunately, Greer decides to go south to inform the sheriff of Stride's situation.Before Greer can get to the sheriff's office, the leader of the men who hired him to transport the gold shoots him down in the street. Because Greer knowingly risked his life and lost it trying to help Stride, Masters says he was wrong, that Greer was a man after all. Well, it is nice of Masters to say that, being generous about the man now that he is dead, but we know better. After all, Greer was not wearing a gun, and in a Western, that is always the mark of a weakling. And thus it is that when Greer is shot in the back unarmed as he walks to the sheriff's office, we breathe a sigh of relief. Though Annie says she loves her husband, yet we know that this is for the best.Later, after Stride has returned the gold, he tells Annie where he will be working as a deputy and indicates that he would be glad to see her, if ever she should be passing by that way. She quickly decides that after a decent interval (both have recently murdered spouses), she will take him up on that offer. This makes us feel good, because Stride is the real man she has needed all along. When they finally get married and he gives it to her the way her first husband never could, justice will finally be restored.

While heading to Flora Vista, the coach of John Greer (Walter Reed) and his wife Annie Greer (Gail Russell) gets trapped in the mud and the former sheriff Ben Stride (Randolph Scott) helps the couple that invites him to ride together with them. Then they meet the strangers Bill Masters (Lee Marvin) and his partner Clete (Donald Barry) and Bill tells to the couple that Ben is tracking down the seven men that robbed the Well Fargo office in Silver Springs and killed his wife that worked in the office. Annie gets close to Ben, who feels responsible for the death of his beloved wife. During their journey, they have moments of tension with an attack of Indians and the interest of Bill in Annie, and Ben asks Bill and Clete to leave the couple. When they arrive in the boundary of Flora Vista, John discloses a secret to Ben."Seven Men From Now" is a solid western, with story and characters very well developed and outstanding performances. Randolph Scott performs a lonely rider thirsty to revenge the death of his wife, and Lee Marvin performs a great villain, as usual. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "7 Homens Sem Destino" ("7 Men Without Destiny")

I might have seen this as a teenager, but if so I don't remember it. Reading others' reviews gave me high hopes when a chance to tape it came up. So, well, it's certainly not bad: it starts and ends with tremendous scenes and has good stuff along the way. But for my taste there are entirely too much shots of them travelling through the scenery, and Randolph Scott does seem to be playing more on a single note than in other films like the Tall T, also shown recently. Lee Marvin's character is interesting and well portrayed. But some of the scenes seem to fall a little flat; the tensions within the group travelling together are unevenly portrayed, and the robbers whose action sets Stride on their trail are barely brought to life at all. The shooting of the husband of Gail Russell's character also seems a rather transparent way of getting him out of the way, which will put the robber leader in just as much trouble as the husband's revelations would have done.Overall, then, I mark this lower than most have done, at 6.

Seven Men From Now (1956) *** (out of 4) Randolph Scott's wife is killed by seven bandits so he sets out to kill each one of them. On his journey he comes across a young couple (Gail Russell, Walter Reed) and helps them get out west since they are going to the same town where Scott believes some of the men are. It seems like over the past couple years this film's reputation has blown up and some people talk about this as one of the greatest Westerns ever made. I wouldn't go that far since we've seen this type of revenge film countless times before but the film is still very impressive due to some great direction and fine performances. Scott is his usual good self and delivers another strong performance. Russell is also very good in her role and makes for a great female lead. The key to the film and the best performance belongs to Lee Marvin who is brilliant as one of the possible murderers. While the revenge story isn't that original what is original is how personal we get to feel and care for the Scott character since he's not completely innocent and has personal guilt that fuels his fire for revenge. The scenery is beautiful throughout the film and all of this leads to a very entertaining ending.