The Tattered Dress

Mar 14, 1957

1h 33m

★ 5.6

The story of The Tattered Dress ... that exposed a town's hidden evil !

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Universal International Pictures

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Cast

James Gordon Blane

Jeff Chandler

Diane Blane

Jeanne Crain

Sheriff Nick Hoak

Jack Carson

Carol Morrow

Gail Russell

Charleen Reston

Elaine Stewart

Billy Giles

George Tobias

Lester Rawlings

Edward Andrews

Michael Reston

Phillip Reed

Ralph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)

Edward Platt

Prosecutor Frank Mitchell

Paul Birch

Paul Vernon

Alexander Lockwood

Judge David L. Johnson

Edwin Jerome

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