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Marshall Patch... he lived by the law of the gun... - Death of a Gunfighter
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Title: Death of a Gunfighter

Release Date: 8 May 1969

Runtime: 1h 34m

Genre: Western

Director: Universal Pictures

Production Companies: Universal Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.3 (35 votes)

Cast

  • Marshal Frank Patch: Richard Widmark
  • Claire Quintana: Lena Horne
  • Lester Locke: Carroll O'Connor
  • Edward Rosenbloom: David Opatoshu
  • Andrew Oxley: Kent Smith
  • Laurie Mills: Jacqueline Scott
  • Ivan Stanek: Morgan Woodward
  • Mayor Chester Sayre: Larry Gates
  • Doc Adams: Dub Taylor
  • Lou Trinidad: John Saxon
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