5 Card Stud

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

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Genre:Mystery / Western
• Runtime:93 minutes

Cast

Dean Martin : Van Morgan
Robert Mitchum : The Rev. Jonathan Rudd
Inger Stevens : Lily Langford
Roddy McDowall : Nick Evers
Katherine Justice: Nora Evers

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. Read more