Editing 5 Card Stud (section)

== Reception ==
In a contemporary review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', critic [[Vincent Canby]] identified ''5 Card Stud'' as one of a recent spate of "Buddy System" Westerns, such as: ''[[El Dorado (1966 film)|El Dorado]]'' (1966) with [[John Wayne]] and Mitchum; ''[[The Way West (film)|The Way West]]'' (1967) with [[Kirk Douglas]], Mitchum and [[Richard Widmark]]; ''[[The War Wagon]]'' (1967) with John Wayne and Kirk Douglas; ''[[Bandolero!]]'' (1968) with [[James Stewart]] and Dean Martin; and ''[[Villa Rides]]'' (1968) with [[Yul Brynner]], Mitchum and [[Charles Bronson]]. Canby wrote: "Without important exception, all of these titles, stories and settings are interchangeable, to say nothing of the stars, some of whom are beginning to look as if they'd been hatched from dinosaur eggs. ... Buddy System Westerns are somehow basically soft."<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|date=1968-08-01|title=Screen: Buddies Out West|page=24|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

In the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', critic [[Roger Ebert]] wrote: "'Five Card Stud' is not a great movie, but it's a polished, professional one, and it's a good deal more than a common Western. ... But, it also has something rather rare, a well-made story. Most action Westerns are directed by rote: good guy, bad guy, a standard pattern of fights, an eventual triumph for the gentleman in the white hat. Not this one, which presents a suspense story in a Western setting."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=1968-07-16 |title=Reviews: Five Card Stud |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/five-card-stud-1968 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref>