Death of a Gunfighter - Trailer

[@jeffyoung60]

This is a very underrated Western jewel. I saw it as a boy and liked it then and now. It has no happy ending but stands as an excellent human drama. If you watch the movie closely or several times, you begin to realize the townspeople did have a legitimate point, although they mishandled their relations with the old town marshal. His heavy-handed, even ham-fisted violent ways protected the town in the lawless days of the late 1860s to the end of the 1880s when a town marshal had to rely on his own courage, strength, wits, cunning, and fortitude. There was often no backup. He was alone against multiple lawbreakers and criminals, very often violent men for which violence was a way of life for them, especially Civil War displaced veterans. But now it is the civilized 20th century and the town of Cottonwood is a quiet, peaceful place. The town marshal's tough-guy, heavy-handed ways don't suit an early 20th century, peaceful, civilized town in which his methods and attitudes of law enforcement are now seen as archaic, even brutal. The town leaders should have considered pensioning off the town marshal with a generous pension to entice him to retire. The town was too quick to move from the carrot to the stick against the marshal, forgetting that his tough, obdurate, stoic nature was the reason they hired him in the first place and now would come back to haunt them.

[@cooljoeny69]

i saw this movie as a kid back in the 80's and it did remind me of high noon and tom horn.i have always been a big fan of richard widmark.this was a good role for him.i really liked this movie except for the end.they hire him to help the town and when he's done they try to force him out and when he doesn't leave they kill him.also big fan of john saxon,who seems to be good in everything he does from movies to television.

[@tricesimo]

The title kinda gives it away, doesn't it?

[@blossom1643]

Great old movie!! Richard Widmark is one of them guys that just got Better lookin with age & Lena Horne is Lovely. 😎

[@alanwise2996]

Ken “REX” McElroe of Skidmore Missouri ahold have watched this sublime Western and paid particular attention to the ending

[@Gr8Layks]

The birth of "Alan Smithee."

[@callmeishmael3031]

Pop Smithee should have gotten an Oscar.

[@langelodidio-goaldo1105]

Stupenda pellicola, non è chissà che cosa ma comunque valida sceneggiatura, finale drammatico e realistico, quindi stupenda e stupenda per me come valutazione è 8.

[@sheilapreston7988]

Allow the full movie to play. I saw this movie when I was 12 or 13 years of age. 😊👍

[@VinDcator]

It could also have been called, "Death of a Marshal." I've always respected Don Siegel, but would have liked Robert Totten to have finished it. Since when does an actor with no money behind him (Widmark), tell an executive producer how he wants a movie made? Clint Eastwood had the right idea-- if you want to make a movie your way, do it yourself. All in all, though, a great western that speaks volumes about the way the public views changing times.

[@johnetheridge5833]

This movie was on the digital tv channel grit tv, it just went off

[@Gunslinger65]

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