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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.

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Denver Pyle, Jerry Gatlin
Chuck Hayward, Boyd 'Red' Morgan

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Great murder mystery western, 27 February 1999
10/10
Author: Marta from United States

Murder mystery westerns don't come along every day, and while this one is kind of slow moving, it's still a great movie.

Dean Martin is cool and steady as the gambler who takes part in a game of 5 card stud that turns deadly. When he tries to stop the lynching of a cheating player, he's overpowered. Soon after the lynching, every one in the game is methodically murdered in the most inventive ways. One man is strangled with barbed wire, another is drowned in a flour barrel, etc. Dean spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out who's doing the killing.

While Dean is great, Roddy McDowall is fantastic as the sniveling brother of Dean's girlfriend. He's a mean, cowardly, lying weasel, and no one ever played a weasel better.

Yaphet Kotto is fine as the bartender, and Inger Stevens has a small, shining role as the local purveyor of tonsorial delights (a barber). Robert Mitchum comes into the film a little late; while he's straight and true as the scripture-spouting preacher who sweeps out the long abandoned church and begins hold services, you know he's hiding something.

All in all a fine film. Maybe a little too long; the whole movie doesn't amount to much more than enjoyable entertainment, but the actors and the acting in it are really worth watching.

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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.

Also look out for other Duke 'Pals'
Denver Pyle, Jerry Gatlin
Chuck Hayward, Boyd 'Red' Morgan

User Review

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Great murder mystery western, 27 February 1999
10/10
Author: Marta from United States

Murder mystery westerns don't come along every day, and while this one is kind of slow moving, it's still a great movie.

Dean Martin is cool and steady as the gambler who takes part in a game of 5 card stud that turns deadly. When he tries to stop the lynching of a cheating player, he's overpowered. Soon after the lynching, every one in the game is methodically murdered in the most inventive ways. One man is strangled with barbed wire, another is drowned in a flour barrel, etc. Dean spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out who's doing the killing.

While Dean is great, Roddy McDowall is fantastic as the sniveling brother of Dean's girlfriend. He's a mean, cowardly, lying weasel, and no one ever played a weasel better.

Yaphet Kotto is fine as the bartender, and Inger Stevens has a small, shining role as the local purveyor of tonsorial delights (a barber). Robert Mitchum comes into the film a little late; while he's straight and true as the scripture-spouting preacher who sweeps out the long abandoned church and begins hold services, you know he's hiding something.

All in all a fine film. Maybe a little too long; the whole movie doesn't amount to much more than enjoyable entertainment, but the actors and the acting in it are really worth watching.

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Plot Summary
After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards
he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered,
one after another; all by hanging.
Who will be killed next and who is responsible?
Is it one of the original party seeking to cover their accursed deed,
or perhaps the mysterious Rev. Jonathan Rudd, who has recently arrived in town?
Written by Alfred Jingle

Full Cast
Dean Martin ... Van Morgan
Robert Mitchum ... The Rev. Jonathan Rudd
Inger Stevens ... Lily Langford
Roddy McDowall ... Nick Evers
Katherine Justice ... Nora Evers
John Anderson ... Marshal Dana
Ruth Springford ... Mama Malone
Yaphet Kotto ... Little George
Denver Pyle ... Sig Evers
Bill Fletcher ... Joe Hurley
Whit Bissell ... Dr. Cooper
Ted de Corsia ... Eldon Bates
Don Collier ... Rowan
Roy Jenson ... Mace Jones
Jerry Gatlin ... Frankie Rudd (uncredited)
Joe Gray ... Cowhand (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward ... O'Hara (uncredited)
Robert F. Hoy ... Deputy Marshal Otis (uncredited)
Louise Lorimer ... Mrs. Frank Wells (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan ... Fred Carson (uncredited)
George Robotham ... Stoney Burough, Evers' Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Hope Summers ... Customer in General Store (uncredited)

Writing Credits
Marguerite Roberts (screenplay)
Ray Gaulden (novel)

Original Music
Maurice Jarre

Cinematography
Daniel L. Fapp
James V. King

Goofs
Character error
Al Dana refers to himself as a "simple town marshal" but the sign outside his office says he is a U.S. Marshal.

Continuity
When Nick is shot and dumped into the grave there is blood on his upper body, but there is no blood or bullet hole visible on his shirt.

In the scene where Van Morgan and the Reverend Rudd are shooting at the wind mill they empty their guns. The next scene shows them reloading both weapons. The revolvers had swing out cylinders. Later in the gunfight in town, when they reload their pistols, they are now using Colt Peacemakers that have a loading port to the right side of the cylinder.

In the church scene when The Rev. Jonathan Rudd meets Nick Evers, the Reverend collects four hymnals from the benches, placing the spine of the books in his right hand. The books then flip over with the spines in his left hand. At the end of the conversation, the stack of books flip back over with the spines in his right hand.

When Van Morgan is playing poker in the opening scene he has a shirt on with two pockets that button down. The next morning after he crawls into town after being hit on the head the night before he has on a shirt with one pocket.

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Filming Location
Durango, Mexico