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The Tattered Dress (1957)

The Tattered Dress (1957)

Drama Crime

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

Release Date: 1957, March 14
Directors: Jack Arnold
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal International Pictures
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Chet Brandenburg, Charles Perry, Paul Bradley, Ralph Brooks, Chuck Hamilton, Phillip Reed, Mary Bayless, Joseph Granby, Charles Herbert, Jack Carson, Edward Andrews

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.

Keywords:

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