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Death of a Gunfighter

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

1969 · PG · 1h 34m

Directed by Robert Totten, Alan Smithee and Don Siegel

6.3

TMDB audience score
43 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • Richard Widmark
    Marshal Frank Patch

  • Lena Horne
    Claire Quintana

  • Carroll O'Connor
    Lester Locke

  • David Opatoshu
    Edward Rosenbloom

  • Kent Smith
    Andrew Oxley

  • Jacqueline Scott
    Laurie Mills

  • Morgan Woodward
    Ivan Stanek

  • Larry Gates
    Mayor Chester Sayre

  • Dub Taylor
    Doc Adams

  • John Saxon
    Lou Trinidad

  • Darleen Carr
    Hilda Jorgenson

  • Michael McGreevey
    Dan Joslin

  • Royal Dano
    Arch Brandt

  • Jimmy Lydon
    Luke Mills

  • Kathleen Freeman
    Mary Elizabeth

  • Harry Carey Jr.
    Rev. Cork

  • Amy Thomson
    Angela

  • Mercer Harris
    Will Oxley