Yaphet Kotto is fine as the bartender, and Inger Stevens has a small, shining role as the local purveyor of tonsorial delights (a barber). He's a mean, cowardly, lying weasel, and no one ever played a weasel better.

While Dean is great, Roddy McDowall is fantastic as the sniveling brother of Dean's girlfriend. Dean spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out who's doing the killing. One man is strangled with barbed wire, another is drowned in a flour barrel, etc. Soon after the lynching, every one in the game is methodically murdered in the most inventive ways.

When he tries to stop the lynching of a cheating player, he's overpowered. Dean Martin is cool and steady as the gambler who takes part in a game of five card stud that turns deadly.

But it’s a risky move, as having the most cards in your hand by the end of Phase Two means you have to ride the bus.Murder mystery westerns don't come along every day, and while this one is kind of slow moving, it's still a great movie. Players have the option of saving their cards in the hopes they’ll be able to match them to a higher pyramid value. They lay down the four, earning two drinks to distribute to multiple people in the group or to one person. Play continues up the pyramid.Įxample: The dealer turns over a four on the second row of the pyramid, and a player has a four in their hand. Multiple cards can be laid down per row and on the same card, and the drinks earned can be distributed however the player pleases. Anyone who has a matching card in their hand can lay their card on top, gaining them the right to punish another player with the quantity of drinks associated with that row. Starting at the bottom row, one card is flipped at a time. Drink values increase as you go up the pyramid, with cards on the bottom row counting for one drink each, and the single top card counting for five drinks-or one shot of liquor, if you want to up the ante. The dealer then builds a pyramid of face-down cards, with five cards at the base, four in the next row and so on until there is one card at the top. Players collect their four distributed cards and hold them privately.

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