The Tattered Dress (1957)

Drama

After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...

Updated May 22 2020

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1957-03-14

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Keywords:

crooked lawyer noir courtroom

FACTS

Runtime: 93 mins Rating: 5.3

Cast

Edward Platt

Ralph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)

Jack Carson

Sheriff Nick Hoak

Alexander Lockwood

Paul Vernon

William Schallert

Court Clerk

Charles Herbert

Johnny Blane

Edward Andrews

Lester Rawlings

George Tobias

Edith Colby

Jeff Chandler

James Gordon Blane