7 Men from Now

They eat horses, don't they?

Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin's characters made this film fun to watch because of the way there personality's contrast and play off of each other.

Very good no nonsense western. Goes through it's paces at a sharp pace, has some nice shots of the desert and mountains, and great performances from Marvin and Scott.

The first and best of the Scott-Boetticher westerns. Great Kennedy script, great bad buy (Lee Marvin), and a fine heroine (the beautiful, unfortunate Gail Russell).

Above average Western with a youthful Marvin and a formidable 58 year old Randolph Scott.

Even though I am not a big fan of westerns this was a very solid movie with a beginning that grabs your attention and just does not let go. It is short with a very good story to it and Lee Marvin was awesome in this.

Short and sweet, this tightly paced western is full of tense scenes and great dramatic performances. Lee Marvin is wonderfully slimy.

Not quite to the level of Ride Lonesome, the other Boetticher/Scott joint I've seen. Both films share similar structure and superficial story details. This one lacks the same power in imagery, as well as the same dramatic tension. Still, this is good stuff propelled by a good performance from Lee Marvin. Randolph's Stride is a bit less interesting, but his exploits in the final showdown make up for most of this. Still plenty of Boetticher/Scott flicks to get to: a good problem to have.

Beautifully crafted genre piece with a stoic central performance. Everything is measured and carefully paced for a perfect no-frills picture.

Everybody is much obliged to everybody at the end

Pure genre with some pretty technicolor scenery.

Didn't find it engaging personally but there's nothing wrong with it.

Lee Marvin makes the whole thing work, even as Boetticher rehearses some of the sequences and landscapes that he will use to even greater effectiveness in some of the later Scott films such as Comanche Station.

Viewed April 12, 2021. Boetticher has an incredible eye for desolate landscapes, and there's something deeply, intrinsically compelling about watching stoic Randolph Scott make his way through them.

Lee Marvin is solid, but Randolph Scott seems pretty emotionless for a man driven by revenge. The movie moves to a predictable western-style showdown with a couple of twists along the way.

Star Rating: ★★★★

Good example of an old-school western where everything is done just about right. Scott is solid as a rock and Lee Marvin amazingly charismatic. It has also has some really interesting takes on masculinity (if less so on femininity...).

Simple yet entertaining western. Although it is a standard revenge flick with predictable moments, the cast and director do a good job of keeping the film from ever getting boring.

The almost lyrical sequences where we watch from a reasonable distance the Greer family travelling, their caravan in tow, over the rugged landscape, stop the film from feeling rushed and are also quite lovely to watch, but the whole film is a tight production throughout, only eighty minutes long, much to its benefit. Lee Marvin is excellent as Bill Masters though Randolph Scott as Stride is also memorable. It isn't perfect but it is is a tough, effortlessly engaging western that I enjoyed a lot.

A tightly-paced Western plagued with weird gender politics. Score is not a grade.

A terrible title song (at least in its rendition) and somewhat tacked-on opening scene, but once Scott meets the wagon this one had me in its grip. Marvin is wonderfully insolent throughout, and Gail Russell has a great presence as well. Its real strength lies in its gritty depiction of everyday life, and the revelation along the way proved genuinely shocking. Also nice was the scene where Scott and Russell talk to each other through the wagon floor, filmed so that they seem in the same room.

Oooh. Lee Marvin. :]

Nothing too mindblowing, but enjoyable nonetheless. Moves at a nice pace, the story is simple but effective, and Lee Marvin is a delightfully sleazy baddie.

Boetticher has done better than this. It's a pretty good movie but I felt as if the story failed to live up to its full potential. I found the relationship between the couple to be the most interesting part of the plot but it ended up a miss. I always dislike the female characters in westerns, but Gail Russell's was an almost obvious bitch. Still it's so hard to go wrong with both Scott and Marvin in the cast.