The Tattered Dress (1957)
- Starring:
- Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jack Arnold
Synopsis of The Tattered Dress
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, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Tattered Dress
- 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
- Jack Del Rio
- Mary Bayless
- Joseph Granby - Second Jury Foreman
- Forrest Stanley - Hank Bell
- Jeffrey Sayre
- Edward Platt - Ralph Adams
- Maurice Marks
- Charles Conrad
- Napoleon Whiting - Willie
- Dan Dowling
- John Phillips - Reporter
- Jerry Elliott
- 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
- Jack Shutta - Gas Station Proprietor
- Arthur Tovey
- Clarence Straight - Bailiff
- Billy Snyder - Rod Staley
- Ziva Rodann - Woman on Train
- Helene Marshall - Newspaper Woman
- Robert Malcolm - Elderly Citizen
- Dick Wilson - Foreman of 1st Jury
- Charles Herbert - Johnny
- Paul Birch - Frank Mitchell
- Donald Chaffin
- King Lockwood - Steward
- Director(s):
- Jack Arnold
- Writer(s):
- George Zuckerman
- Producer(s):
- Albert Zugsmith
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