1968 - 5 CARD STUD, an entertaining western

Here's something you don't see everyday, a mystery film set in the old west.  Dean Martin is the card shark who gets involved with a group that lynches a man they suspect of cheating at cards.  One by one the group starts dying off while Deano tries to figure out what's going on.

Robert Mitchum shows up as the Reverend Jonathan Rudd, essentially repeating his character from The Night Of The Hunter.  The producer Hal Wallis and the director  Henry Hathaway load the rest of the cast up with a familiar bunch of names. Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowell, Yaphet Kotto, Denver Pyle and everyone's favorite character actor Whit Bissell.

 

As with any Hal Wallis production the film looks good and Henry Hathaway does his usual excellent job staging the action scenes.

 

Written by Marguerite Roberts the film runs 103 minutes.