Dawn At Socorro (1954)

A notorious gunfighter and gambler (Rory Calhoun) is in ill health, bad enough that it may prove fatal. He decides to go to Colorado Springs where the mountain air should prove beneficial to his health. But on the stagecoach, he meets a young woman (Piper Laurie) that temporarily alters his plans. Directed by George Sherman (AGAINST ALL FLAGS), this was one of the many western programmers that Universal churned out in the 1950s. There's not much one can say about it, it resembles a score of other westerns of the era (and the decades that preceded it). If you're a fan of oaters as I am, the movie should prove watchable but unless you are a westerns fan, there's not much reason to watch. Calhoun's lung diseased coughing gambler seems to be based on Doc Holliday. With David Brian, Lee Van Cleef, Alex Nicol, Edgar Buchanan, Mara Corday, Kathleen Hughes, Skip Homeier and Richard Garland.