5 Card Stud

:"This article is about the western film. For the poker game, see Five-card stud."

Infobox Film
name = 5 Card Stud


caption =
director = Henry Hathaway
producer = Joseph H. Hazen
writer = Ray Gaulden
starring = Dean Martin
Robert Mitchum
Inger Stevens
music = D.H. Doane, Maurice Jarre, F.C. Van Al Styne
cinematography = Daniel L. Fapp
editing = Warren Low
distributor =
released = 1968
runtime = 103 min.
rating =
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0062626

"5 Card Stud" is a 1968 Western, released by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the script was written by Marguerite Roberts who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year. The film features two stars known for their casual underplaying: Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. The supporting cast includes Roddy McDowall, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice, John Anderson, Yaphet Kotto, and Denver Pyle.

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 (Dean Martin), tries to stop the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the man's lynching. He leaves town, but later returns when he hears that a couple of the other players at that ill-fated game have been murdered.

The town has a new resident, a stern preacher named Reverend Rudd (Robert Mitchum). As more of the lynchers 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.

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DVD Reviews

* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s526stud.html Review] by Glenn Erickson at [http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/ DVD Savant] a part of [http://www.dvdtalk.com/ DVD Talk]
* [http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/fivecardstud.php Review] by Eric Profancik at [http://www.dvdverdict.com/ DVD Verdict]
* [http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=3614 Review] by Mark Zimmer at [http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/index.php3 digitally OBSESSED!]