5 Card Stud

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This article is about the western film. For the poker game, see Five-card stud.

5 Card Stud

Directed by	Henry Hathaway
Produced by	Joseph H. Hazen
Written by	Ray Gaulden
Starring	Dean Martin Robert Mitchum Inger Stevens
Music by	D.H. Doane, Maurice Jarre, F.C. Van Al Styne
Cinematography	Daniel L. Fapp
Editing by	Warren Low
Release date(s)	1968
Running time	103 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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5 Card Stud is a 1968 Western, released by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the script was written by Marguerite Roberts who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year. The film features two stars known for their casual underplaying: Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. The supporting cast includes Roddy McDowall, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice, John Anderson, Yaphet Kotto, and Denver Pyle.

Martin plays a gambler who is falsely implicated in the lynching of a fellow gambler caught cheating. Mitchum is a gun-toting preacher. As the lynchers are killed off one by one, it becomes clear that someone is taking revenge; and it is up to Martin to solve the mystery as he becomes the next target of the killer.