Dawn at Socorro

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Dawn at Socorro (1954)

NR 1954-09-01 (US) Romance, Western 1h 21m

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The Story of the NOTORIOUS BRETT WADE, LAST OF THE FRONTIER GAMBLERS

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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.

George Sherman

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George Zuckerman

Writer

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Rory Calhoun

Brett Wade
Piper Laurie

Rannah Hayes
David Brian

Dick Braden
Kathleen Hughes

Clare
Alex Nicol

Jimmy Rapp
Edgar Buchanan

Sheriff Cauthen
Mara Corday

Letty Diamond
Roy Roberts

Doc Jameson
Skip Homeier

Buddy Ferris
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on February 7, 2016

All my friends are my enemies.

Dawn at Socorro is directed by George Sherman and written by George Zuckerman. It stars Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, David Brian, Kathleen Hughes, Alex Nicol and Edgar Buchanan. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Carl Guthrie.

One Night In Socorro.

A cracker-jack Western this. Plot essentially has Calhoun as Brett Wade, a tough gunfighter who is suffering badly from ill health. Taking advice from his doctor he decides to retire to healthier pastures, but his past and new enemies refuse to let him go. OK! So it's very much a composite of a... read the rest.

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