5 Card Stud
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Henry Hathaway
Dean Martin
Robert Mitchum
Inger Stevens
Roddy Mcdowall
Katherine Justice
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In 1880, a stud-poker game in Rincon, Colorado, ends violently when one of the players, a stranger, is lynched for attempting to cheat. Gambler Van Morgan, who alone tried to prevent the hanging, decides to move on to Denver. After he leaves, a gold rush hits Rincon, bringing with it the self-ordained Rev. Jonathan Rudd, a fire-and-brimstone preacher, and Lily Langford, a madam with a group of lady barbers. After learning that two of the poker players have been murdered, Van returns to Rincon, despite the warning of bartender Little George that someone may be planning to kill every man who played in the game. While Van divides his time between tracking down the killer and diverting himself with both Lily and Nora Evers, two more of the game's participants are murdered. Unknown to Van, the killer is Reverend Rudd, whose brother was the lynch victim; he was supplied with the names of the other players by Nora's brother, Nick, who claims he tried to circumvent the hanging, although he actually instigated it. After killing Little George on Evers' advice, Reverend Rudd discovers that Nick was the ringleader of the lynching and that Van was also in the card game. Rudd outdraws Nick and then goes after his final victim, but the preacher is killed in the final shootout. Van leaves once more for Denver, bidding farewell to both Nora and Lily.
Director
Henry Hathaway
Cast
Dean Martin
Robert Mitchum
Inger Stevens
Roddy Mcdowall
Katherine Justice
John Anderson
Ruth Springford
Yaphet Kotto
Denver Pyle
Bill Fletcher
Whit Bissell
Ted De Corsia
Don Collier
Roy Jenson
Boyd "red" Morgan
George Rowbotham
Jerry Gatlin
Robert Hoy
Louise Lorimer
Chuck Hayward
Crew
Del Acevedo
Frank Beetson Jr.
W. H. Doane
Daniel L. Fapp
Fred Gammon
William W. Gray
Maurice Jarre
Harold Lewis
Warren Low
Carol Meikle
Ray Moyer
Paul Nathan
Leah Rhodes
Marguerite Roberts
Walter Tyler
F. C. Van Alstyne
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Well, they all look alike to the worms.- The Rev. Jonathan Rudd
I didn't hear you say amen.- Van Morgan
I don't believe in it.- Little George
You mean you came over 100 miles just to tell me that?- Van Morgan
I'd have come farther.- Little George
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Durango, Mexico. Copyright claimants: Paramount Pictures, Hal B. Wallis, and Joseph H. Hazen.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States July 12, 1968
Released in United States Summer July 10, 1968
Released in USA on video.
Released in United States Summer July 10, 1968
Released in United States July 12, 1968 (Chicago)
