Five Card Stud Rating: Release Date: 13 May, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $12.14 You SAVE: $2.85! Cast: Dean Martin Robert Mitchum Inger Stevens Roddy McDowall Complete Cast (8 total)

Five Card Stud Reviews

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Good western but actually typical
Quite a few westerns have had a mystery element to them (check out some of John Wayne's 30's westerns). I find those who gave this film a thumbs up for unique mystery to be wrong. But the film has agreat authentic (made in mexico) if Hollywood-style clean setting. The acting is all fine but Inger Stevens is especially beautiful and sexy in her role as Martin's love interst.

Enjoyable thriller western
Five Card Stud is a very good mystery western that seems like a thriller or horror movie at times. The movie starts with a lynching of a stranger in the town of Rincon who was cheating at a card game. Soon after, all the men in the mob start turning up dead. No one knows who is responsible for all the grisly murders that keep going on. The story is well told throughout even though the viewer knows who the murderer is almost from the beginning. The mood and musical score contribute to the overall feeling of the movie more as a horror or thriller movie than as a western, but there are still plenty of gunfighters, gun battles, and barroom smoke everywhere.

Dean Martin stars as Van Morgan, the gambler who attempts to stop the lynching but ultimately fails. As the hero, he plays his usual cool self which works in this role. Robert Mitchum plays the preacher who appears in town soon after the lynching. This role is very similar to that of The Night of the Hunter. Yaphet Kotto is very good as George, the bartender and friend of Van Morgan. Roddy McDowall is also excellent as Nick Evers, the leader of the lynch mob. Also starring are Inger Stevens, Denver Pyle, Thelma Ritter and several other familiar western faces. The DVD offers a widescreen presentation which is very good after seeing it mangled on full screen. Very enjoyable murder mystery western with an excellent cast!

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