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 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

Richard Widmark — Marshal Frank Patch

Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.

Lena Horne — Claire Quintana

Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010) was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

Carroll O'Connor — Lester Locke

John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001), better known as Carroll O'Connor, was an American actor, producer and director whose television career spanned four decades. Known at first for playing the role of Major General Colt in the 1970 movie, Kelly's Heroes, he later found fame as the bigoted working man Archie Bunker, the main character in the 1970s CBS television sitcoms All in th