5 Card Stud
1968 · Movie · PG · 103 min · ★ 6.2 · 57% critics
After a tense poker game in a frontier town ends in harsh vigilante justice, the men involved begin turning up dead one by one. As fear spreads and suspicion grows, a gambler and a newly arrived preacher work to uncover who’s behind the killings before the list runs out.
Also known as Five Card Stud · Cinq cartes à abattre
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Details
- Years
- 1968
- Release date
- 1968-07-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Critic score
- 57/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (91 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a classic Western with a whodunit twist, familiar saloon trouble, and mounting suspicion; Not for you if you dislike slow-burn mysteries or predictable setups, even compared with True Grit.
Pros: fun western mystery hook; strong lead pairing; lively town paranoia | Cons: contrived story beats; uneven energy; tension sometimes low
Themes
- poker
- murder
- cementery
- cheating at cards
Cast & crew
Dean Martin
as Van Morgan
Robert Mitchum
as Reverend Jonathan Rudd
Inger Stevens
as Lily Langford
Roddy McDowall
as Nick Evers
Katherine Justice
as Nora Evers
John Anderson
as Marshal Dana
Ruth Springford
as Mama Malone
Yaphet Kotto
as Little George
Denver Pyle
as Sig Evers
- BF
Bill Fletcher
as Joe Hurley
Directed by Henry Hathaway