Death of a Gunfighter

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.

• RWRichard WidmarkMarshal Frank Patch
• LHLena HorneClaire Quintana
• COCarroll O'ConnorLester Locke
• DODavid OpatoshuEdward Rosenbloom
• KSKent SmithAndrew Oxley
• JSJacqueline ScottLaurie Mills
• MWMorgan WoodwardIvan Stanek
• LGLarry GatesMayor Chester Sayre
• DTDub TaylorDoc Adams
• JSJohn SaxonLou Trinidad