5 Card Stud is a 1968 Western, released by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the script, based on a novel by Ray Gaulden, was written by Marguerite Roberts, who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year. The film features Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum. In the 1880 town of Rincon, Colorado, a gambler is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the man's lynching. Morgan leaves town, but later returns when he hears that a... couple of the other players from that ill-fated game have been murdered. The town has a new resident, a stern preacher named Reverend Rudd. As more members of the lynch mob are killed off one by one, it becomes clear that someone is taking revenge and it is up to Morgan to solve the mystery. Finally, only he is left. He discovers the identity of the killer just in time. This film marked the last appearance of Inger Stevens. Two years after she did both this film and another Western Hang 'Em High, Stevens committed suicide.
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| Release date: | 1968 |
| Directed by: | Henry Hathaway |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | Joseph H. Hazen |
| Editor: | Warren Low |
| Music by: | D.H. Doane, Maurice Jarre, F.C. Van Al Styne |
| Cinematography: | Daniel L. Fapp |
| Screenplay by: | Ray Gaulden |
| Genre: | Western, Thriller |