
Film
Death of a Gunfighter
1969 · 1h 34m · Western
Marshall Patch... he lived by the law of the gun...
- IMDb
- 6.2
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 75%
- Metacritic
- 69
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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.
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
Crew
- Robert TottenDirector
- Alan SmitheeDirector
- Don SiegelDirector
- Joseph CalvelliScreenplay
- Lewis B. PattenNovel
- Richard E. LyonsProducer
- Andrew JacksonDirector of Photography
- Oliver NelsonOriginal Music Composer
- Robert F. ShugrueEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 25, 1969
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- PG
- Genres
- Western
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