Dawn at Socorro

19541954
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1h 20m

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6.4/10

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Romance Western

Gunfighter Brett Wade, diagnosed with tuberculosis, tries to get out of his former life while helping a young woman.Gunfighter Brett Wade, diagnosed with tuberculosis, tries to get out of his former life while helping a young woman.Gunfighter Brett Wade, diagnosed with tuberculosis, tries to get out of his former life while helping a young woman.

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

543

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Piper Laurie, Rory Calhoun, David Brian, and Kathleen Hughes in Dawn at Socorro (1954)

Piper Laurie and Rory Calhoun in Dawn at Socorro (1954)

Piper Laurie and David Brian in Dawn at Socorro (1954)

Rory Calhoun and David Brian in Dawn at Socorro (1954)

Piper Laurie, Rory Calhoun, and David Brian in Dawn at Socorro (1954)

Piper Laurie and Alex Nicol in Dawn at Socorro (1954)

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Trivia
Lordsburg, New Mexico is located in Hidalgo County in far southwest New Mexico. Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, nearly a decade after the setting of this movie.

Goofs
The monochrome brown of the outside scenery seen from inside the stagecoach through the windows during the ride does not match the colored external scenery as shown from outside the stagecoach, proving that the studio used old black & white stock footage that was tinted brown to disguise its black & white origins.

Quotes
Brett Wade: Well, this is an honor. Probably the first time a corpse has ever been asked to deliver his own funeral oration. I expected to be carried out of Lordsburg, but here I stand on my way to Colorado filled with wind instead of lead. I couldn't include most of you in my will, but I do leave you all the unmined silver in these hills, all the unspilled whiskey, all the unkissed ladies and all the unfilled straights and flushes. I want to apologize for leaving the party. For me, there never has been, and never will be, another like it. And finally, I want to apologize to all of those of you who hoped to gain the distinction of being the man or woman to shoot and kill the notorious Brett Wade.
Jimmy Rapp: No apologies necessary, Wade. I'm here to oblige you.

Connections
Featured in Punainen auringonlasku (1956)

Soundtracks
Always Younger
(uncredited)
Music by Henry Mancini

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Under rated classic 50's Western

Any student of real western history will recognise the characters and part of the plot as being related to the Doc Holliday / Wyatt Earp /Clanton feud in Tombstone. Rory Calhoun is pretty obviously Doc while James Millican is Wyatt. The shootout in the stockyards is based on the OK corral and the screenwriters offer an interesting story on what happened next. Alex Nicol as Jimmy Rapp (John Ringo) is nicely portrayed and the movie moves along with a good pace of action, motivation and characterisation. Certainly a classic, considering the studio system in operation at the time it was made.A lot of effort and thought obviously went into its production. Well worth seeing.

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