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Dawn at Socorro

Name: Dawn at Socorro
Genre: Western
Released: 1954-09-01
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 7.208

★ 7,2 /10 (12 Votes)

1954 EN 81 min

Overview

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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Release date

01/09/1954

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2.3

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

Genres

Western

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

81 min

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

James Millican

Harry McNair

Lee Van Cleef

Earl Ferris

Stanley Andrews

Old Man Ferris

Richard Garland

Tom Ferris

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Scott Lee

Vince McNair

Paul Brinegar

Desk Clerk

Philo McCullough

Rancher (as Philo McCollough)

Forrest Taylor

Jebb Hayes

Tristram Coffin

Saloon Patron at Table (uncredited)

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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…

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