Death of a Gunfighter 1969

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

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PG
Western

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.

Release Date 1969-05-08
Runtime 1h 34m
Directors Robert Totten, Andrew Jackson, Joe Boston, Don Siegel, Alan Smithee
Producer Richard E. Lyons
Writers Lewis B. Patten, Joseph Calvelli