Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter

Western · 1969 · 1h 34m

Movie

6.3/10 · TMDB

Marshall Patch... he lived by the law of the gun...

Overview

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town, on hiring him, had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

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Cast & crew

Richard WidmarkMarshal Frank Patch
Lena HorneClaire Quintana
Carroll O'ConnorLester Locke
David OpatoshuEdward Rosenbloom
Kent SmithAndrew Oxley
Jacqueline ScottLaurie Mills
Morgan WoodwardIvan Stanek
Larry GatesMayor Chester Sayre
Dub TaylorDoc Adams
John SaxonLou Trinidad
Darleen CarrHilda Jorgenson
Michael McGreeveyDan Joslin
Royal DanoArch Brandt
Jimmy LydonLuke Mills
Kathleen FreemanMary Elizabeth

Information

Release date
25 April 1969
Director
Robert Totten, Alan Smithee, Don Siegel
Genres
Western
Runtime
1h 34m
Country of origin
United States

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