5 Card Stud (1968)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Henry Hathaway

Writers:

Marguerite Roberts (screenplay)
Ray Gaulden (novel)

Release Date:

22 November 1968 (France)

Genre:

Western | Mystery

Tagline:

A card cheat was hung... then all hell broke loose!

Plot:

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

Plot Keywords:

Poker | Beautiful Woman | Lynching | Serial Killer | Cardsharp

Cast

Dean Martin	...	Van Morgan
Robert Mitchum	...	The Rev. Jonathan Rudd
Inger Stevens	...	Lily Langford
Roddy McDowall	...	Nick Evers
Katherine Justice	...	Nora Evers
John Anderson	...	U.S.Marshal Al Dana
Ruth Springford	...	Mama Malone (saloon owner)
Yaphet Kotto	...	Little George (Mama's bartender)
Denver Pyle	...	Sig Evers (rancher)
Bill Fletcher	...	Joe Hurley (livery stable owner)
Whit Bissell	...	Dr. Cooper (Rincon, Colorado)
Ted de Corsia	...	Eldon Bates (head of Miners Association)
Don Collier	...	Rowan (gold miner)
Roy Jenson	...	Mace Jones (Evers' hand)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jerry Gatlin	...	Frankie Rudd (stranger who's lynched) (uncredited)
Joe Gray	...	Cowhand (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward	...	O'Hara (uncredited)
Robert F. Hoy	...	Deputy Marshal Otis (uncredited)
Louise Lorimer	...	Mrs. Frank Wells (uncredited)
Boyd 'Red' Morgan	...	Fred Carson (general store) (uncredited)
George Robotham	...	Stoney Burough, Evers' Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Hope Summers	...	Female customer in general store (uncredited)

Directed by
Henry Hathaway

Writing credits
Marguerite Roberts		(screenplay)
Ray Gaulden		(novel)

Produced by
Joseph H. Hazen	....	executive producer
Paul Nathan	....	associate producer
Hal B. Wallis	....	producer

Original Music by
Maurice Jarre

Cinematography by
Daniel L. Fapp
James V. King		(uncredited)

Film Editing by
Warren Low

Production Design by
Walter H. Tyler		(as Walter Tyler)

Set Decoration by
Ray Moyer

Costume Design by
Leah Rhodes

Makeup Department
Adelbert Acevedo	....	makeup artist
Del Acevedo	....	makeup department head
Carol Meikle	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Frank Beetson	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Fred Gammon	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Harold Lewis	....	sound recordist

Stunts
Jerry Gatlin	....	stunts
Boyd 'Red' Morgan	....	stunts
Joe Gray	....	stunts (uncredited)
Chuck Hayward	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bob Orrison	....	stunts (uncredited)
George Robotham	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
James V. King	....	camera operator (uncredited)

Music Department
Maurice Jarre	....	conductor

Transportation Department
Salvador Gutiérrez	....	transportation captain

Other crew
'Chema' Hernandez	....	head wrangler: Mexico (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1968) (USA) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1971) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Paramount (1968) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Paramount Home Video (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Five Card Stud (USA) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

103 min | Argentina:105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 (re-rated) | West Germany:16 (nf) (original rating) | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG (certificate #21845)

Filming Locations:

Durango, Mexico

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: When Nick is shot and dumped into the grave there is blood on his upper body, but there is no blood or bullet hole visible on his shirt.

Quotes:

Van Morgan: You mean you came over 100 miles just to tell me that?
Little George: I'd have come farther.

Soundtrack:

5 Card Stud

And then there were none.

(It seems that some people are offended by the title of my review because they do not know Agatha Christie's English title of "and then they were none" which includes a derogatory world ;could you please delete my first review and put this one instead:it's the same with the American title of Christie's book)

Agatha Christie meets western.It's really a whodunit!A cheat is lynched and then someone is doing away with the hangmen,one by one.And like in Christie's classic ,they are guilty and their deaths follow the same pattern:they all die strangled .Murders scenes recall more a thriller than a western .So does Maurice Jarre's music.The cast is perfect with an excellent Roddy McDowall whose character holds a grudge to the whole world.A lot of witty lines add spice to the plot.Dean Martin sings the title song.