Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Produced by: Joseph H. Hazen
Written by: Marguerite Roberts
Starring: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens
Music by: D.H. Doane, Maurice Jarre, F.C. Van Al Styne
Cinematography: Daniel L. Fapp, Editing by Warren Low
Release date: July 31, 1968
Running time: 103 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

5 Card Stud is a 1968 Western, released by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the script, based on a novel by Ray Gaulden, was written by Marguerite Roberts, who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year. The film features Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum.

Plot

In the 1880 town of Rincon, Colorado, a gambler is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the man’s lynching. Morgan leaves town, but later returns when he hears that a couple of the other players from that ill-fated game have been murdered.

The town has a new resident, a stern preacher named Reverend Rudd. As more members of the lynch mob are killed off one by one, it becomes clear that someone is taking revenge and it is up to Morgan to solve the mystery. Finally, only he is left. He discovers the identity of the killer just in time.

Cast

Dean Martin as Van Morgan
Robert Mitchum as The Rev. Jonathan Rudd
Inger Stevens as Lily Langford
Roddy McDowall as Nick Evers
Katherine Justice as Nora Evers
John Anderson as U.S. Marshal Al Dana
Ruth Springford as Mama Malone
Yaphet Kotto as Little George
Denver Pyle as Sig Evers
Bill Fletcher as Joe Hurley
Whit Bissell as Dr. Cooper
Ted de Corsia as Eldon Bates
Don Collier as Rowan
Roy Jenson as Mace Jones

Links

• 5 Card Stud at the Internet Movie Database

DVD reviews

• DVD Savant review by Glenn Erickson
• DVD Verdict review by Eric Profancik
• digitallyOBSESSED! review by Mark Zimmer

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