5 Card Stud
5 Card Stud is a 1968 American Western mystery film, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. The script is based on a novel by Ray Gaulden and was written by Marguerite Roberts, who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year.
Plot
In 1880, an unknown drifter and gambler in the small town of Rincon, 100 miles (161km) 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 lynch him. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the hanging. Morgan leaves town, but later returns, when he hears that several of the other players from the poker game have become victims of grisly murders. Morgan starts relationship with Lily, the barbershop owner.
More details
| author | Marguerite Roberts |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Colorado |
| director | Henry Hathaway |
| editor | Warren Low |
| events | gambling |
| genre | mystery western |
| keywords | baptist cheat colt .45 colt single action army denver five-card stud frontier justice game hang kill lynch lynch mob one by one poker game pray small town |
| musicBy | Maurice Jarre |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |