Movie

Death of a Gunfighter

★ 6.3/10 · 43 votes 1969 1h 34m Released

Western

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