Dawn at Socorro (1954)
1h 21m
Running Time
September 1, 1954Release Date
Dawn at Socorro (1954)
1h 21m
Running Time
September 1, 1954Release Date
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Plot.
Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
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Cast & Crew.
Rory Calhoun
Brett Wade
Piper Laurie
Rannah Hayes
David Brian
Dick Braden
Kathleen Hughes
Clare
George Sherman
Director
Edgar Buchanan
Sheriff Cauthen
George Zuckerman
Writer
Mara Corday
Letty Diamond
Roy Roberts
Doc Jameson
William Alland
Producer
Carl E. Guthrie
Cinematographer
Skip Homeier
Buddy Ferris
Edward Curtiss
Editor
James Millican
Harry McNair
Lee Van Cleef
Earl Ferris
Alex Nicol
Jimmy Rapp
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Wiki.
Dawn at Socorro is a 1954 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Rory Calhoun and Piper Laurie. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film is set mostly in Lordsburg, New Mexico, and the spoken introduction says the story is based on an actual shootout in the town in 1871. But no such incident happened there. The plot is actually a thinly veiled fictionalization of the famous 1881 shootout near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, which pitted the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday against the Clanton Gang.