5 Card Stud
A card cheat was hung... then all hell broke loose!
1968 • 103 min • Western · Mystery
Synopsis
After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.
Our family guide
Best from age 13- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 63 Audience · 94 · 47%
In a rugged western town, a poker game goes wrong, leading to a lynching. Soon, those involved in the mob find themselves targeted by a mysterious killer, facing the same grim fate. It's a dark mystery where justice and revenge intertwine.
- Violence & peril
- 7/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 6/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 5/10
Heads up
- Graphic violence, including hangings
- Heavy drinking and poker-playing
- Intense mystery with dark themes
What it models well
- Consequences of actions
- Justice and revenge
- Confronting guilt
Talk about it after
- The cycle of violence and revenge
- What constitutes justice?
- Mob mentality and individual responsibility
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Top billed cast
Director: Henry Hathaway • Crew: Marguerite Roberts
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedWell you know what they say about two wrongs not making a right! “Van Morgan” (Dean Morgan) is playing a game of five card stud when one of their number is caught cheating and summarily lynched. That ought to have been the end of that, but then a rather enigmatic preacher arrives in town and the vengeful townsfolk start to quite gruesomely drop like flies. Could it be that “Rev.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers**_Western in the Southwest with Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum and Roddy McDowall_** In 1880, a mysterious preacher (Mitchum) comes to a frontier town a hundred miles south of Denver. That’s when the players of an infamous card game start dying and a smooth gambler (Martin) tries to figure out who’s doing the killin’. McDowall plays the rebellious son of the local mogul rancher.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersWhen he played he played for blood. 5 Card Stud is directed by Henry Hathaway and adapted to screenplay by Marguerite Roberts from a novel written by Ray Gaulden. It stars Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Justice, John Anderson, Ruth Springford and Yaphet Kotto. Music is by Maurice Jarre and cinematography by Daniel L. Fapp.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.3/10 (94)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- IMDb
- tt0062626