Plot:

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.

Tags:

Actors - Crew

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

Robert Totten
Director

Joseph Calvelli
Screenplay

Lewis B. Patten
Novel

Richard E. Lyons
Producer

Andrew Jackson
Director of Photography

Robert F. Shugrue
Editor

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