Death of a Gunfighter

Death of a Gunfighter

94 mins | Western | May 8, 1969

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.

Death of a Gunfighter

94 mins | Western | May 8, 1969

Death of a Gunfighter
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title Death of a Gunfighter
Directors Joe Boston, Robert Totten, Alan Smithee
Writers Lewis B. Patten, Joseph Calvelli

Cast

Richard Widmark

as Marshal Frank Patch

Lena Horne

as Claire Quintana

Carroll O'Connor

as Lester Locke

David Opatoshu

as Edward Rosenbloom

Kent Smith

as Andrew Oxley

Jacqueline Scott

as Laurie Mills

Morgan Woodward

as Ivan Stanek

Larry Gates

as Mayor Chester Sayre

Dub Taylor

as Doc Adams

John Saxon

as Lou Trinidad

Darleen Carr

as Hilda Jorgenson

Michael McGreevey

as Dan Joslin

Royal Dano

as Arch Brandt

Jimmy Lydon

as Luke Mills

Kathleen Freeman

as Mary Elizabeth

Harry Carey, Jr.

as Rev. Cork

Amy Thomson

as Angela

Mercer Harris

as Will Oxley

James O'Hara

as Father Sweeney

Walter Sande

as Paul Hammond

Victor French

as Phil Miller

Robert Sorrells

as Chris Hogg

Charles Kuenstle

as Roy Brandt

Sara Taft

as Mexican Woman