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Death of a Gunfighter

1969 · TMDB 6.3

Directed by Robert Totten, Alan Smithee, Don Siegel

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.

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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...

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Director · Robert Totten Director · Alan Smithee Director · Don Siegel Producer · Richard E. Lyons Writer · Joseph Calvelli Cinematography · Andrew Jackson Composer · Oliver Nelson Editor · Robert F. Shugrue

Runtime: 94 min
Released: 1969-04-25
Studio: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
Language: English
TMDB score: 6.3

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