Frank Patch - Deine Stunden sind gezählt
(1969)
Regisseur:
Don Siegel, Alan Smithee, Robert TottenSchauspieler:
Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Kent Smith, Jacqueline Scott, Morgan Woodward, Larry Gates, Dub Taylor, John Saxon, Darleen Carr, Michael McGreevey, Royal Dano, Jimmy Lydon, Kathleen Freeman, Harry Carey, Jr.Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, in der texanischen Stadt Cottonwood Springs: Nach 20-jähriger Amtszeit muss Marshal Frank Patch aufpassen, dass ihn der Fortschritt nicht einholt. Als er den betrunkenen Luke Mills erschießt, sehen die modern gesinnten Kräfte des Ortes die Gelegenheit gekommen, ihn endlich loszuwerden. Doch Patch wehrt sich entschlossen - zunächst mit der Berufung auf sein Recht, da er für unbegrenzte Zeit in sein Amt gewählt wurde; danach mit Gewalt.
Ungewöhnlich rührender Western um einen Marshall, der nach zwanzig Jahren aus seinem Amt vertrieben wird.
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.
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.
