Five Card Stud
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Dean Martin, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowallDirector: Henry Hathaway
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Daniel L. Fapp
Cinematographer: James V. King
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Joseph H. Hazen
Producer: Paul Nathan
Writer: Marguerite Roberts
Writer: Ray Gaulden
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
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Movie Review: "When a gambler lets his game wind up in a killing, pretty soon he doesn't have a game."
Summary: 3 Stars
Despite his attempt to stop the execution, Van Morgan (Dean Martin) was hit by a gun on his head and thrown out, at night, in the streets of Rincon, Colorado and the clumsy crook was lynched...
Feeling uncomfortable, Van Morgan leaves for Denver the next day ... In the days of his absence, two of the seven card players have been dead, one being drowned in a flour barrel, the other got it with a twist of wire...
For Little George (Yaphet Kotto) who went to see Van in Denver, it looks to him somebody is out to kill every man at that party which is a real good reason for Van to steer clear of Rincon if he is figuring on coming back...
Meanwhile, a gold rush has brought a bunch of outsiders to the town so, on his return, Morgan finds new faces like Jonathan Rudd (Robert Mitchum), the preacher with a Bible in his hand and a Colt in his belt ; and Lily Langford (Inger Stevens), with her elegant barbershop and her gorgeous lady 'barbers.'
Robert Mitchum plays the man who is looking for the man who is looking for him... Tension mounts when Nick Evers (Roddy McDowall) saves the hunter a long hunt... Dean Martin waits as the gambler who doesn't bank on his cards, because if he does, he winds up broke...
Summary of Five Card Stud
An 1880s gambler and preacher investigate killings stemming from a game of poker. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Dean Martin Inger Stevens Run time: 103 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Henry HathawayParamount released a first-rate Western, El Dorado, in 1967, and another, True Grit, in 1969. So why was the studio's 1968 oater such a hunk of buzzard bait? You know Five Card Stud's in trouble from the opening credits--they're too short to accommodate the Dean Martin title song, so that it spills awkwardly into the first scene. The timing never does come out right--not in the lethargic pacing, not in the lax editing (which often leaves cast members stranded onscreen at scene's end), and not in the herky-jerky screenplay, which either lurches over intervals of weeks (months?) or piles up enough calamities in one day to stock a sequel. Even the end comes five minutes and two anticlimactic scenes late.
An after-hours poker game is underway as the film begins. A stranger is caught cheating and, over the objection of professional gambler Dean Martin, lynched. Soon there's another stranger in town, black-clad preacher Robert Mitchum, and participants in the fatal card game start dying grotesque, solitary deaths. Five Card Stud wants to be a psychological mystery, but there's scant psychology and no mystery at all beyond why the filmmakers thought any viewer could fail to figure it out. Martin and Mitchum sleepwalk through their roles (Martin's includes a glum, ludicrously written romance with brothel-keeper Inger Stevens), while Roddy McDowall camps up his turn as spoiled son of the local range baron. Somewhere in the middle, the young Yaphet Kotto plays it admirably cool as a philosophical bartender. --Richard T. Jameson
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