Death of a Gunfighter (1969)

US:: PG Western

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood 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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1969-04-04

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marshal saloon owner

FACTS

Runtime: 100 mins Rating: 6.4

Cast

Larry Gates

Mayor Chester Sayre

Harry Carey, Jr.

Reverend Cork

Dub Taylor

Doc Adams

Kathleen Freeman

Mary Elizabeth

John Saxon

Lou Trinidad

Richard Widmark

Marshal Frank Patch

Morgan Woodward

Ivan Stanek

David Opatoshu

Edward Rosenbloom