Death of a Gunfighter

The story

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 & crew

Richard WidmarkMarshal Frank Patch

Lena HorneClaire Quintana

Carroll O'ConnorLester Locke

David OpatoshuEdward Rosenbloom

Kent SmithAndrew Oxley

Jacqueline ScottLaurie Mills

Morgan WoodwardIvan Stanek

Larry GatesMayor Chester Sayre

Dub TaylorDoc Adams

John SaxonLou Trinidad

Darleen CarrHilda Jorgenson

Michael McGreeveyDan Joslin