
The Gunfighter(1950)
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.


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

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
Death of a Gunfighter is a western film released in 1969 exploring themes of marshal, saloon owner. Directed by Robert Totten, it stars Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor. 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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