5 Card Stud (Paramount Pictures) (1968)

Build A Boiler For 30 Pesos Kilroy’s mark is nowhere to be found on this dusty upland heath where the bite of the scorpion kills and Pancho Villa was born. But Duncan Hines was here. His seal of approval is on the wagon-train-like circle of modern hogans with car ports where a movie troupe is billeted. And thereby hangs a bone the director would like to pick with old Duncan the outrider. “He should have frozen to death,” growled Henry Hathaway, a cigar chomper just turned 70 and rounding out 38 years as a maker of Westerns for which he seems to search out Dr. Livingstone-I-presume location sites. Hathaway and his band had just been through a cold war with the motel management concerning the heating arrangements. “Food’s all right,” he conceded, ‘if you stay with steak and potatoes and the fresh pineapple and what they call ‘Swiss-style’ enchiladas, the kind they think are Mexican in the States. But Hines must have been here in mid-August. Or before the boiler broke. And that must have been a long time ago. “We'd come in after a hard day’s work and jump into the shower to get the dust off us, and ice water would come out. Turn on the heater and get the north wind. Go to bed and shiver all night. I kept raising hell. I didn’t want mass pneumonia on my hands. First week, Martin sounded like Andy Devine.” Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum are his lead cowpokes in “5 Card Std OPO NINEbales .sceseseoccanpace at the ses tvearer eee theatre, which he is charged with getting on celluloid for Hal Wallis and Paramount. “The manager kept saying, ‘We fixing boiler. Manana will be okay.’ But manana and manana and manana—and hell! I said, ‘Listen. I was here making “The Sons of Katie Elder” three years ago—remember? You said: you were fixing that thing then, and you still haven’t fixed it. Now I’m taking over.’ So I went out and got my Mexican mechanic.” An almost tender look transformed the steel-blue eyes. “Joaquin Hernandez. Remarkable man. And what a face! Gray eyes wide apart and full of expression, square jaw with a little white beard, cheeks like seamed leather. It was the face first attracted me. I’d found him in a little shop here in Durango and hired him to do extra work for 30 pesos a day. “Then I’d decided we’d better have an old-fashioned steam engine in the machine shop on our Western-street set, and asked Joaquin if he could find me one. He did. In a junk yard. Found a brokendown 1880 Case model they’d torn out of a sawmill up there in the Sierra Madre. He put it together, poured new bearings with typelead he got from the local newspaper, and made the damn thing run. She burns wood and generates 25 pounds of pressure. If she generated any more she’d blow the whole set into the Sierra Madre. But she turns saws and lathes just like we wanted her to. “T asked, ‘How much do I owe you?’ He said, ‘My wage—30 pesos a day. That is all, senor.’ You know how much 30 pesos is? That’s $2.40. And he wouldn’t take a centavo more. “But when I wanted that boiler fixed, I gave him 5,000 pesos and said, ‘Get whatever you need, but fix it.’ He said, ‘I fix, but no, senor —no more money. Only 30 pesos a day. Enough.’ I said, ‘Look, it’s worth it. My actors are frozen stiff. That boiler’s not fixed it’ll cost me a fortune.’ And 5,000 pesos, you know, that’s only $400—cheap. But he wouldn’t touch it. “Well, he spent a whole Sunday inside that boiler. He came out looking like a coal heaver. He said, ‘Bien senor—boiler will be okay,’ and he patted me on the shoulder like a mother. A mother? I was wearing a heavy white coat and you can still see the print of his hand. But he got that boiler going. The heat—the heat came on! “T said, ‘Much gracias, Joaquin. A bonus,’ and peeled off 500 pesos, more than he’d make in two weeks. ‘Take it, por favor’—that means for a favor, please. And I shoved it into his hand. But you’d have thought I’d stabbed him. ‘No senior. What I do with so much money?’ It actually worried him. ‘Take back.’ He laid it on the table. He had his price and that was all he’d take—80 pesos.” And the tough old stager from Hollywood smiled rather sweetly. He looked like a man who had found the Dr. Livingstone in whom he had long ago ceased to believe. Still #922 GUN DRAWN, Dean Martin waits for the next move in “5 CARD STUD”. In Technicolor this Paramount Picture opens «0 AROS atone At CUNE Se sates ecco e theatre. Robert Mitchum and Inger Stevens also star. Mat 1B A Million or Bust New triple-threat man Roddy McDowall, suddenly bidding fair to make his million one way or another, is co-starring with Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum in the big Paramount suspense Western, “Five Card Stud,” which opens eee at the cies Lheatre. Suddenly the “Arthur” discotheque, which he founded with Jordan and Sybil Burton Christopher in New York three years ago and duplicated in Los Angeles last month, is proliferating itself all over the country. They’re granting franchises, yet. And how come? “Because it’s the most successful discotheque that’s ever been,” says Roddy. Last week one opened in Detroit. Others are on the way in San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, Seattle, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. “It’s named after Beatle George Harrison’s haircut ‘Arthur,’ in ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’ ” Meanwhile, the one-time child star whose acting career began hitting new peaks with his performance as Richard Burton’s badseed son in the Broadway ‘‘Camelot,” is the photographer all the glamour girls are crying for. Life has commissioned his lens several times. Roddy just finished “Hello Down There” for Ivan Tors-Paramount. TUT UTUR UU UIUC NL GLO O CIEE UTI OUT UT UU UL IC OC OL ELODIE OOOO EOL OI UUM tL ban Still FCS Spec #1 COTTA TTL UU TUL TTL TEL TUE NTE NTE UTT OUT OUT OTD OTE STOTT UT SU TT PVE HTY AUT NUT NTE NUE NUE OTE UD UD SU CU NT SM GC MCC OC CCE MEXICAN LOOT—The Hal Wallises, (Martha Hyer) and Henry Hathaways did not return from that Mexican “5 Card Stud” opening eh ARES be Atstheises.:...0.5. Lheatre location exactly empty-handed. The prop men hired a whole new truck to bring back their purchases. Most of the Wallis loot, including paintings, statuary, furniture, old Spanish hardware and a dismantled stone fountain, will go into that fabulous Palm Springs place. Oh well, the producer and his director are two of the richest men in pictures. Hathaway, who used to moonlight nursing along an asphalt company he founded on a _ shoestring, sold it a few years ago to Gulf Oil for $18 million in stock. And did you know he’s been using an alias all these years? If his S.F.-pioneer grandfather had stayed in Belgium, he’d be the Marquis Henri Leopold de Fiennes ...A Paramount Picture in Technicolor. “5 CARD STUD” is an explosive western starring Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens and Roddy McDowall. A unique mystery stemming from an innocent card game leads to death and murder. A Paramount Picture in Technicolor it opens ed TTT ATT TT TUTTLE PT VU MUT SUPT UU GUT UTE TTU TO OT UTRUE NTT UENO CUD UPC CTO MOC NUD TDC GU OUT UCC UOC PANCHO VILLA’S SON—appears in “FIVE CARD STUD”. Trinidad Villa, the youngest son of the late Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, is starring in a feature role in Paramount Pictures’ SHives Catia studs. OPeMIe) sees-cc..0te Chee erties Theatre. The suspense-Western, which stars Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum, was filmed in Technicolor, on location in Durango, Mexico, under the direction of Henry Hathaway. Villa, a film actor, is a resident of Mexico City. Coincidentally Mitchum recently completed a starring role in Paramount’s forthcoming “Villa Rides,” a film about the elder Villa. “Rive Card Stud” co-stars Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall and Katherine Justice. The film is being photographed from a_ screenplay by Marguerite Roberts, based on a novel by Ray Gaulden. Paul Nathan is the associate producer. Still #10 Mat 2A BADLY WOUNDED SHERIFF gets protection from Robert Mitchum and Dean Martin. Dragged through the streets by his horse the sheriff is helped by these two. “5 CARD STUD”, a Paramount Picture in Technicolor opens ............ at the pesos 1 Mh tae kar are theatre. SPALL peels ala ce theatre. Mat 3A PUT TTT TTL TCV UT TET TUL UUE TTD PTC NUD OE NTE ITO UT OE CUTY VCMT NT CCU COC CC LU et} cli Still #409 Mat 1A: EVER KISS YOUR BARBER, Dean Martin does in this scene from “5 CARD STUD.” Of course his barber turns out to be Inger Stevens. A Paramount Picture in Technicolor IPGOPENS Here nic weet or ss at the LADY BARBER—Inger Stevens, so long TV’s good girl of “The Farmer’s Daughter,” finally gets that retyping job. With Dean Martin and Bob Mitchum in Hal Wallis’ “Five Card Stud,” openrh a= Ree rh Fic oc ean ee ae Theatre. she’s the Delilah of a plush frontier “barber shop” whose beautiful lady barbers are in fact her girls. This time it’s ex-Miss Ohio Katherine Justice who’s the farmer’s daughter, Inger’s competition for Dino. And if you don’t think the movie bars are down, it’s the madam who gets him. In a Western, at that. A Paramount Picture in Technicolor. 3