Movie
Death of a Gunfighter
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1969-04-25
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
Crew
- Robert Totten - Director
- Alan Smithee - Director
- Don Siegel - Director
- Joseph Calvelli - Screenplay
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