

Marshall Patch... he lived by the law of the gun...
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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Cast
- Richard WidmarkMarshal Frank Patch
- Lena HorneClaire Quintana
- Carroll O'ConnorLester Locke
- David OpatoshuEdward Rosenbloom
- Kent SmithAndrew Oxley
- Jacqueline ScottLaurie Mills
- Morgan WoodwardIvan Stanek
- Larry GatesMayor Chester Sayre
- Dub TaylorDoc Adams
- John SaxonLou Trinidad
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- Robert TottenDirector
- Alan SmitheeDirector
- Don SiegelDirector
- Joseph CalvelliScreenplay
- Lewis B. PattenNovel
- Andrew JacksonDirector of Photography
- Oliver NelsonOriginal Music Composer
- Robert F. ShugrueEditor
- Richard E. LyonsProducer
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