Robert Mitchum

as Jim Lacy aka Nevada

Anne Jeffreys

as Julie Dexter

Craig Reynolds

as Cassius "Cash" Burridge

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

as Dusty

Richard Martin

as Chito Rafferty

Harry Woods

as Joe Powell

Nancy Gates

as Hattie Ide

Sammy McKim

as Marvy Ide

Alan Ward

as Sheriff William H. Brewer

Edmund Glover

as Nelson, assayer-deputy

Emmett Lynn

as J. Pancake Comstock

Larry Wheat

as Ben Ide