Death of a Gunfighter

Marshall Patch... he lived by the law of the gun...

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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.

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Cast

Richard Widmark actor Lena Horne actor Carroll O'Connor actor David Opatoshu actor Kent Smith actor Jacqueline Scott actor

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Morgan Woodward actor

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Larry Gates actor Dub Taylor actor John Saxon actor Darleen Carr actor Michael McGreevey actor Royal Dano actor

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Jimmy Lydon actor Kathleen Freeman actor

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Harry Carey, Jr. actor

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Amy Thomson actor

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Mercer Harris actor

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James O'Hara actor Walter Sande actor