7 Men From Now (Seven Men from Now)

7 Men From Now (Seven Men from Now) (1956)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (1,944 ratings)

Ben Stride (Randolph Scott, in a role originally slated for John Wayne) trudges stoically through the West, hunting down the seven men responsible for the murder of his wife in a Wells Fargo station holdup. As the film opens, we see him dispatching two of the miscreants during a driving rainstorm.… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Western, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1956 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television

    Classic Western that is one of the high water marks of the American cinema.

  • Brent Simon, Now Playing Magazine

    Spare and artful...

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    It deserves to be viewed, as one of the greatest Westerns -- possibly one of the greatest films -- ever made.

  • Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com

    gets everything right and we indeed feel this movie in our stomachs and hearts

  • Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine

    The effect is not one of (pre) post-modern nudging, but a questioning of the conventions through the director's humanizing gaze.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Randy T


    How can you not love Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin???

  • jay n


    Wonderfully lean, effective western. Good performances all around particularly Marvin and Gail Russell, whose worn appearance gives her character an extra layer of vunerability especially if you know the actress' personal history

  • Walter M


    In "Seven Men from Now," Ben Stride(Randolph Scott) is on the hunt for seven men who robbed a Wells Fargo office in Silver Springs. He has already dispatched two of them by the time he comes across John(Walter Reed) and Annie Greer(Gail Russell) who are stuck in the mud on… More

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