5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud is a 1968 Western, mystery movie directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. 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.

Plot

In 1880, a gambler in the small town of Rincon, 100 miles from Denver, Colorado is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The players, led by the volatile Nick Evers, take the cheating gambler to hang him. 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 become victims of grisly murders.

The town has a new resident, a stern and somewhat edgy Colt .45-carrying Baptist 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

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