Death of a Gunfighter

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.

Discover

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

Kathleen Freeman

Mary Elizabeth

Amy Thomson

Angela

Mercer Harris

Will Oxley

James O'Hara

Father Sweeney

Walter Sande

Paul Hammond

Victor French

Phil Miller

Robert Sorrells

Chris Hogg

Charles Kuenstle

Roy Brandt

Sara Taft

Mexican Woman

Art

Howard E. Johnson

Art Direction

Alexander Golitzen

Art Direction

Sandy Grace

Set Decoration

John McCarthy Jr.

Set Decoration

Camera

Andrew Jackson

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Helen Colvig

Costume Design

Bud Westmore

Makeup Artist

Larry Germain

Hairstylist

Directing

Robert Totten

Director

Joe Boston

Assistant Director

Alan Smithee

Director

Don Siegel

Director

Editing

Production

Kenneth L. Grossman

Unit Production Manager

Sound

Stanley Wilson

Music Supervisor

Oliver Nelson

Original Music Composer

Writing

Joseph Calvelli

Screenplay