Carroll Baker character Eve Prescott Rawlings
Lee J. Cobb character Marshal Lou Ramsey
Henry Fonda character Jethro Stuart
Carolyn Jones character Julie Rawlings
Karl Malden character Zebulon Prescott
Gregory Peck character Cleve Van Valen
George Peppard character Zeb Rawlings
Robert Preston character Roger Morgan
Debbie Reynolds character Lily Prescott
James Stewart character Linus Rawlings
Eli Wallach character Charlie Gant
John Wayne character William Sherman
Richard Widmark character Mike King
Brigid Bazlen character Jeb Hawkins' Daughter
Walter Brennan character Jeb Hawkins
David Brian character Lilith's Attorney
Andy Devine character Peterson
Raymond Massey character Abraham Lincoln
Agnes Moorehead character Rebecca Prescott
Harry Morgan character Ulysses S. Grant
Thelma Ritter character Agatha Clegg
Mickey Shaughnessy character Deputy Stover
Russ Tamblyn character Confederate Deserter
Spencer Tracy character Narrator (voice)
Harry Dean Stanton character Gant Henchman (uncredited)
Lee Van Cleef character River Pirate (uncredited)
Rodolfo Acosta character Gant Gang Member (uncredited)
Clinton Sundberg character Hylan Seabury (uncredited)
Willis Bouchey character Civil War Surgeon (uncredited)
Claude Johnson character Jeremiah Rawlings (uncredited)
Kim Charney character Sam Prescott (uncredited)
Bryan Russell character Zeke Prescott (uncredited)
Stanley Livingston character Prescott Rawlings (uncredited)
Jay C. Flippen character Huggins (uncredited)
Tudor Owen character Alec Harvey (uncredited)
Karl Swenson character Train Conductor (uncredited)
James Griffith character Gambler (uncredited)