This film marked one of the final appearances of Inger Stevens, and the second time that Mitchum played an unorthodox preacher (following 1955's The Night of the Hunter). The song led by Rudd at his first service in Rincon is 'Mercy's Call,' a late-19th-century Baptist hymn written by W. Robert Mitchum as Reverend Jonathan Rudd.When Morgan is the last man from the poker game left alive, he realizes that Rudd is the murderer, and he kills Rudd in a shootout. As more members of the lynch mob are killed off one by one, it becomes clear that someone is taking revenge, and it is up to Morgan to solve the mystery. 45-carrying Baptist preacher named Reverend Rudd. The town has a new resident, a stern and somewhat edgy Colt. Morgan leaves town, but later returns when he hears that several of the other players from the poker game have become victims of grisly murders. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the killing.

The players, led by the volatile Nick Evers, take the cheating gambler to lynch him. In 1880, a gambler in the small town of Rincon, 100 miles from Denver, Colorado, is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The script is based on a novel by Ray Gaulden and was written by Marguerite Roberts, who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year. 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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