Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another all by hanging, strangling, or smothering. Gotta Kill Them All: After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against."Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Dean Martin sings the title song.As Van Morgan says as he chases after the mob in an attempt to stop them, you run tinhorns out of town you don't hang them. Disproportionate Retribution: After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against.When the miner says he will reload it and continue on to the marshal's office, the deputy smashes the rifle against the side of a building before handing the remains back to him. He then asks the miner what he will do if he returns the rifle to him. One of the marshal's deputies accosts them, takes the rifle, and empties it of shells. Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy: Some gold miners are concerned that there's a killer loose and the marshal can't or won't do anything about it, so they march towards the marshal's office, one of them carrying a rifle, intent on taking the law into their own hands.Cruel and Unusual Death: The killer's first four victims are smothered in a flour barrel, garrotted with barbed wire, hanged by the bell rope in the church, and drowned in a horse trough.Opening to a particular page, he pulls out a derringer he has hidden in the hollowed out pages and shoots Nick. Book Safe: When Nick Evers is holding Reverend Johnathan Rudd at gunpoint, he starts reading from the Bible. ![]() At the end of the movie, Van chooses Lily, realizing that they fit better together, and that neither of them is under any illusions about who the other is. Betty and Veronica: Protagonist Van Morgan has two Love Interests: brunette rancher's daughter Nora (Betty) and blonde Miss Kitty Lily who runs a barbershop-cum-bordello (Veronica).Badass Preacher: Reverend Johnathan Rudd is a gun-toting preacher not above using his six-shooters to fill his church.Avenging the Villain: After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. ![]() Van sticks around to sort out the mess personally, as a pair of newcomers get the attention of the town: Lily Langford (Inger Stevens), a madam who uses a barbershop for a front and the Reverend Johnathan Rudd (Mitchum) a gun-toting preacher not above using his six-shooters to fill his church. ![]() Gambler Van Morgan (Martin) tried to stop the lynching, which came about mostly because of Nick Evers ( Roddy McDowall), an unlikable sort who thinks that one of the lynchers is killing the rest to eliminate witnesses to the crime. When a card cheat is secretly lynched, the five men responsible all start turning up strangled by various grisly methods. The script is based on a novel by Ray Gaulden and was written by Marguerite Roberts. 5 Card Stud is a 1968 American Western mystery film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum.
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