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.
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Richard Widmark as Marshal Frank Patch
Lena Horne as Claire Quintana
Carroll O'Connor as Lester Locke
David Opatoshu as Edward Rosenbloom
Kent Smith as Andrew Oxley
Jacqueline Scott as Laurie Mills
Morgan Woodward as Ivan Stanek
Larry Gates as Mayor Chester Sayre
Dub Taylor as Doc Adams
John Saxon as Lou Trinidad
Darleen Carr as Hilda Jorgenson
Michael McGreevey as Dan Joslin
Royal Dano as Arch Brandt
Jimmy Lydon as Luke Mills
Kathleen Freeman as Mary Elizabeth
Harry Carey, Jr. as Rev. Cork
Amy Thomson as Angela
Mercer Harris as Will Oxley
James O'Hara as Father Sweeney
Walter Sande as Paul Hammond
Victor French as Phil Miller
Robert Sorrells as Chris Hogg
Charles Kuenstle as Roy Brandt
Sara Taft as Mexican Woman
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