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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.

1969 |1h 34m |  Western

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Cast

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Richard Widmark

Marshal Frank Patch

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Lena Horne

Claire Quintana

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Carroll O'Connor

Lester Locke

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David Opatoshu

Edward Rosenbloom

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Kent Smith

Andrew Oxley

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Jacqueline Scott

Laurie Mills

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Morgan Woodward

Ivan Stanek

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Larry Gates

Mayor Chester Sayre

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Dub Taylor

Doc Adams

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John Saxon

Lou Trinidad

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Darleen Carr

Hilda Jorgenson

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Michael McGreevey

Dan Joslin

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Royal Dano

Arch Brandt

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Jimmy Lydon

Luke Mills

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Kathleen Freeman

Mary Elizabeth

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Harry Carey, Jr.

Rev. Cork

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James O'Hara

Father Sweeney

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Walter Sande

Paul Hammond

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Victor French

Phil Miller

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Sara Taft

Mexican Woman

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Language

English

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