When Nick is shot and dumped into the grave there is blood on his upper body, but there is no blood or bullet hole visible on his shirt.
In the scene where Van Morgan and the Reverend Rudd are shooting at the wind mill they empty their guns.
The next scene shows them reloading both weapons.
The revolvers had swing out cylinders.
Later in the gunfight in town, when they reload their pistols, they are now using Colt Peacemakers that have a loading port to the right side of the cylinder.
In the church scene when The Rev.
Jonathan Rudd meets Nick Evers, the Reverend collects four hymnals from the benches, placing the spine of the books in his right hand.
The books then flip over with the spines in his left hand.
At the end of the conversation, the stack of books flip back over with the spines in his right hand.
When Van Morgan is playing poker in the opening scene he has a shirt on with two pockets that button down.
The next morning after he crawls into town after being hit on the head the night before he has on a shirt with one pocket.
Al Dana refers to himself as a "simple town marshal" but the sign outside his office says he is a U.
Marshal.
I've seen a handful of Hopalong Cassidy Westerns in which Robert Mitchum appeared as a heavy (he went by Bob back then), so it was cool to see him in a villainous role at the top of the bill here with Dean Martin. He doesn't come on the scene until a good while into the story but he makes his presence felt forcefully as the newly arrived preacher in Rincon.
"5 Card Stud" is a western that should have been a lot better. The plot setup was exceptional...
This one features a whole host of folks who usually contributed to westerns, perhaps in others in a bigger way than in this one which centres around Martin, Mitchum, Stevens and McDowall. Its very simple: a card cheat is taken out of the saloon by a group of guys led by McDowall and hung.
5 Card Stud is directed by Henry Hathaway and adapted to screenplay by Marguerite Roberts from a novel written by Ray Gaulden. It stars Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Katherine Justice, John Anderson, Ruth Springford and Yaphet Kotto.
After a poker player is lynched for cheating, the members of the lynching party start dying one by one. This Western is fairly well made by veteran Hathaway, but the plot is too simplistic to raise it above mediocrity.
Produced by Hal B. Wallis and Directed by Henry Hathaway, "Five Card Stud" as you might have guessed has five card stud poker as it's centerpiece.
Directed by Henry Hathaway. Starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowall, Inger Stevens, Katherine Justice, Yaphet Kotto, Ruth Springford, John Anderson, Denver Pyle.
In 1880, cheating at a poker game leads to a lynching. Then, its players become the victims of a serial strangler.
