Mortal enemies

Movie
German title	Mortal enemies
Original title	5 Card Stud
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1968
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Henry Hathaway
script	Marguerite Roberts
production	Hal B. Wallis
music	Maurice Jarre
camera	Daniel L. Fapp
cut	Warren Low
occupation
	Dean Martin : Van Morgan; Robert Mitchum : Jonathan Rudd; Inger Stevens : Lily Langford; Roddy McDowall : Nick Evers; John Anderson : Marshall Al Dana; Katherine Justice : Nora Evers; Ruth Springford : Mama Malone; Yaphet Kotto : Little George; Denver Pyle : Sig Evers; Bill Fletcher : Joe Hurley; Whit Bissell : Dr. cooper;

Mortal Enemies (original title: 5 Card Stud ) is an American western from 1968 with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum in the lead roles. The film is based on a novel by Ray Gaulden .

action

In 1880, a game of poker in Colorado had a fatal outcome: because one of the men was wrong, he was lynched by his opponents. Only one of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the murder. When Reverend Rudd, the dead man's brother, appears shortly afterwards, the perpetrators are gradually killed by him. The last survivor is the innocent Van Morgan. In one final confrontation, he kills the Reverend.

criticism

The lexicon of international films judged that the film was "an exciting and carefully staged western" . Joe Hembus notes that Mortal Enemies is "a sinister film in which grim old Hathaway indulges in his cruelty." Phil Hardy says the film wastes its cast and unusual, mysterious narrative "with senseless violence . " The director tries to intensify his story with unusual camera angles, but the result is only "a lack of devotion" .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for mortal enemies . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; new edition with changed youth approval).
↑ Mortal Enemies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894 to 1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 617
^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 307f.

[FSK-1] Release certificate for mortal enemies . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; new edition with changed youth approval).

[2] Mortal Enemies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894 to 1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 617

[4] Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 307f.