A Texas town's council fires the town's old-fashioned marshal who refuses to resign, thus leading to violence from both sides.
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Title: Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Richard Widmark | ... | Marshal Frank Patch | |
| Lena Horne | ... | Claire Quintana | |
| Carroll O'Connor | ... | Lester Locke | |
| David Opatoshu | ... | Edward Rosenbloom | |
| Kent Smith | ... | Andrew Oxley | |
| Jacqueline Scott | ... | Laurie Mills | |
| Morgan Woodward | ... | Ivan Stanek | |
| Larry Gates | ... | Mayor Chester Sayre | |
| Dub Taylor | ... | Doc Adams | |
| John Saxon | ... | Lou Trinidad | |
| Darleen Carr | ... | Hilda Jorgenson | |
| Michael McGreevey | ... | Dan Joslin | |
| Royal Dano | ... | Arch Brandt | |
| Jimmy Lydon | ... | Luke Mills (as James Lydon) | |
| Kathleen Freeman | ... | Mary Elizabeth | |
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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. They 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. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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Marshall Patch... he lived by the law of the gun...Genres:
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Dan Joslin: What?
Marshal Frank Patch: You're a bad liar. If you want to succeed in this world, you got to learn to be a good liar.
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The name of the saloon is The Alamo. Richard Widmark played Jim Bowie in The Alamo (1960). See more »Goofs
Near the end of the film you can see the electrical wires running (presumably buried for most of their length under the differently-coloured soil) to a man's body as he is 'shot'; the last yard or so of wire -which is presumably for the gunshot SFX- is clearly visible running towards the man's ankles. See more »Quotes
Marshal Frank Patch: Do you want to know something, Dan?Dan Joslin: What?
Marshal Frank Patch: You're a bad liar. If you want to succeed in this world, you got to learn to be a good liar.
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8 May 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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A Western that shows how the "West growed itself up and got itself civilized".Richard Widmark gives what is probably his last great performance as a Sheriff whose way a doing things don't sit right with the "powers-that-be" personified by town merchant Carrol O Conner.This movie ,like Invitaion to a Gunfighter made some years before it reveals just how gutless and desperate the power-brokers are when there's no one to do their bidding.The film still holds up (even with the much mentioned two directors)though it has that "back-lot"look to most of it.John Saxon has a brief but memorable piece of work in this must see film for western fans or good movie fans.