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VHS : Five Card StudIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Justice directed by: Henry Hathaway  List Price: $9.95 Price: $3.90 You Save: $6.05 (61%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780792115441 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 0792115449 Label: Paramount Manufacturer: Paramount Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Release Date: April 07, 1998 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: 1968 Sales Rank: 27786 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - When He Played, He Played For Blood.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 ... Read More Rating:  - Pair of AcesWestern murder mystery is pretty easy to solve but serves as an agreeable vehicle for an amiably cool Dean. And when Mitchum dons clerical black you know there'll be some fun. Otherwise, this is pretty tame fare and the DVD hasn't been restored. (Good luck getting Dean's title song out of your head for days after.) Rating: - Five Card StudOkay, so it will never make a list of the 20 greatest Westerns ever. The problem is, so will a lot of other entertaining movies like the more light-hearted Texas Across the River. On the other hand with the loss of a great star for many of us who admired him there doesn't seem to be enough Dean Martin movies out there. In Five Card Stud you also get to see quite a lot of the lovely Inger Stevens, who passed much to soon, and Mitchum being as menancing as he could obviously be. What the earlier ... Read More Rating:  - very goodTHIS VIDEO WAS A VERY GOOD MOVIE. I LOVE DEAN MARTIN IN EVERYTHING ESPECIALLY WESTERNS Rating:  - Five Card DudThe idea of teaming Robert Mitchum with Dean Martin certainly had potential, but no one bothered to provide a worthwhile vehicle. "Five Card Stud" (1968) is a ludicrous Western "whodunit" directed by the usually reliable Henry Hathaway. Nothing works here - even Dino's title song falls flat. It's hard to believe Mitchum turned down "The Wild Bunch" in favor of this turkey. Browse for similar items by category:
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