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Dawn at Socorro
Dawn at Socorro
Directed by	George Sherman
Written by	George Zuckerman
Produced by	William Alland
Starring	Rory Calhoun; Piper Laurie
Cinematography	Carl E. Guthrie
Edited by	Edward Curtiss
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Universal International Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	August 27, 1954 (New York City); September 1, 1954 (Los Angeles);
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.1 million

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.