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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792179320
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792179323
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD067374D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 04, 2002
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
AN 1880S GAMBLER AND PREACHER INVESTIGATE KILLINGS STEMMING FROM A GAME OF POKER.
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Paramount released a first-rate Western, El Dorado, in 1967, and another, True Grit, in 1969. So why was the studio's 1968 oater such a hunk of buzzard bait? You know Five Card Stud's in trouble from the opening credits--they're too short to accommodate the Dean Martin title song, so that it spills awkwardly into the first scene. The timing never does come out right--not in the lethargic pacing, not in the lax editing (which often leaves cast members stranded onscreen at scene's end), and not in the herky-jerky screenplay, which either lurches over intervals of weeks (months?) or piles up enough calamities in one day to stock a sequel. Even the end comes five minutes and two anticlimactic scenes late.
An after-hours poker game is underway as the film begins. A stranger is caught cheating and, over the objection of professional gambler Dean Martin, lynched. Soon there's another stranger in town, black-clad preacher Robert Mitchum, and participants in the fatal card game start dying grotesque, solitary deaths. Five Card Stud wants to be a psychological mystery, but there's scant psychology and no mystery at all beyond why the filmmakers thought any viewer could fail to figure it out. Martin and Mitchum sleepwalk through their roles (Martin's includes a glum, ludicrously written romance with brothel-keeper Inger Stevens), while Roddy McDowall camps up his turn as spoiled son of the local range baron. Somewhere in the middle, the young Yaphet Kotto plays it admirably cool as a philosophical bartender. --Richard T. Jameson
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Dean Martin once delt cards for money, and knew a lot of card tricks that wowed his children.. Dean knew cards.. And he knew movies that worked..
I love the old Dean Martin Variety shows. On them he would mention that he was working on westerns and would add a little western flavor to the show. Deano had a ranch and loved his horses and he had a few he really prized.
FIVE CARD STUD Starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, and Katherine Justice, ... Read More
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This Dean Martin vehicle was a childhood favorite. Getting to see it on DVD forty years later, I still am a fan.
The plot, involving a string of revenge killings,is much like a "Columbo" episode. Solving the case, though fun, is not nearly as important as wotching the interaction of the principles. In this case, they are Dean, Robert Mitchum, and Roddy McDowell. Dean is a card-playing "everyman", not as much heroic, as resigned to playing out the string to see what befalls him. His understated ... Read More
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Despite his attempt to stop the execution, Van Morgan (Dean Martin) was hit by a gun on his head and thrown out, at night, in the streets of Rincon, Colorado and the clumsy crook was lynched...
Feeling uncomfortable, Van Morgan leaves for Denver the next day ... In the days of his absence, two of the seven card players have been dead, one being drowned in a flour barrel, the other got it with a twist of wire...
For Little George (Yaphet Kotto) who went to see Van in Denver, it looks ... Read More
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The story opens as Dean Martin is playing a card game in a saloon late at night. One of the players is exposed as a cheat and the rest of the players, led by Roddy McDowell, decide to lynch him. Martin unsuccessfully tries to stop the lynching. Several months later the players in the card game start dying one by one. Is one of the lynch mob trying to silence the other witnesses, or is someone else doing the dirty work and why? Dean Martin has to figure out who is doing the killings before he becomes a victim. ... Read More
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Garden of Evil" director Henry Hathaway's western whodunit "5-Card Stud" pits 'hellfire gambler' Dean Martin against 'gunfire preacher' Robert Mitchum in a frontier tale about lynching, murder, and revenge. Mind you, deducing the whodunit will pose a minor challenge to astute audiences. You will spot the actor committing the crimes long before the film identifies him in its second-to-last scene. If you study the stable strangling scene, the killer's headgear gives him away. The characters in "True Grit" scenarist Marquerite ... Read More
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