5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud

A card cheat was hung... then all hell broke loose!

Directed by Henry Hathaway

Produced by Paramount Pictures, Wallis-Hazen Inc.

1968103 min6.3 / 10

A dark Western mystery where a lynch mob's act of frontier justice becomes the catalyst for a series of retaliatory murders, building paranoia and moral reckoning.

After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.

Questions people ask

  • Is 5 Card Stud scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 94% of films.

  • Does 5 Card Stud end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 83% of films.

  • Is 5 Card Stud violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is 5 Card Stud easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is 5 Card Stud sad? Somewhat. More sad than 61% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

37/ 100

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Rarity34

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Surprise41

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Love35

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