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    The Tattered Dress 1957 POSTER

    The Tattered Dress

    1957

    English

    6.5

    2

    29%

    29%

    Action

    anti hero

    courtroom

    Crime

    crooked lawyer

    Drama

    film noir

    Film-Noir

    jury tampering

    nevada

    Jack Arnold Jack Arnold Director Gail Russell Gail Russell as Carol Morrow Ingrid Goude Ingrid Goude as Girl by Pool Kenneth Gibson Kenneth Gibson as Reporter Jack Carson Jack Carson as Sheriff Nick Hoak
    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 New York 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.
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