The Tattered Dress (1957)
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Jeff Chandler plays big-city lawyer James Gordon Blane, who heads to a small Nevada town to defend a playboy (Phillip Reed) accused of murder. Blane wins the case, but is then himself charged with accepting bribes. The man behind this accusation is vindictive town sheriff Nick Hoak (Jack Carson), who controls all illegal activities in the area. When Blane's legman Billy Giles ends up dead, the lawyer deduces that Hoak was also behind the killing for which the playboy was blamed. Blane struggles to defend his reputation in court while his wife (Jeanne Crain) attempts to mount evidence against Sheriff Hoak. Despite its stellar cast and slick direction (by Jack Arnold), The Tattered Dress comes across as cheap and tawdry -- befitting its seedy subject matter. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jeff Chandler - James Gordon Blane
- Jack Carson - Sheriff Nick Hoak
- Elaine Stewart - Charleen Reston
- Edward Andrews - Lester Rawlings
- Alexander Lockwood - Paul Vernon
- William Schallert - Court Clerk
- Frank Scannell - Cal Morrison
- Marina Orschel - Girl by Pool
- Paul Birch - Frank Mitchell
- Ziva Rodann - Woman on Train
- Jack Shutta - Gas Station Proprietor
- Charles Conrad
- Napoleon Whiting - Willie
- Forrest Stanley - Hank Bell
- John Phillips - Reporter
- King Lockwood - Steward
- Donald Chaffin
- Edward Platt - Ralph Adams
- Robert Malcolm - Elderly Citizen
- Joseph Granby - Second Jury Foreman
- Jeanne Crain - Diane Blane
- Gail Russell - Carol Morrow
- George Tobias - Billy Giles
- Phillip Reed - Michael Reston
- Edwin Jerome - Judge
- June McCall - Girl at Slot Machine
- Floyd Simmons - Larry Bell
- Ingrid Goude - Girl by Pool
- Maurice Marks
- Mary Bayless
- Jack Del Rio
- Dick Wilson - Foreman of 1st Jury
- Clarence Straight - Bailiff
- Billy Snyder - Rod Staley
- Arthur Tovey
- Jerry Elliott
- Jeffrey Sayre
- Helene Marshall - Newspaper Woman
- Charles Herbert - Johnny
- Dan Dowling
- Director(s):
- Jack Arnold
- Writer(s):
- George Zuckerman
- Producer(s):
- Albert Zugsmith
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