The Tattered Dress (1957)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Release: 1957-05-13
Director: Jack Arnold
Writers: George Zuckerman
Language: English
Stars: Jeff Chandler , Jeanne Crain , Jack Carson , Gail Russell , Elaine Stewart , George Tobias , Edward Andrews , Phillip Reed , Edward Platt , Paul Birch
Runtime: 93 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Rochia sfâşiată (Romania) , O nomos tou pezodromiou (Greece) , Günahkarlar Sokağı (Turkey) , The Tattered Dress , Het verscheurde kleed (Belgium) , Il vestito strappato (Italy) , O Vestido Esfarrapado (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Epílogo de uma Sentença (Brazil) , La robe déchirée (France, French Republic) , La robe déchirée (Belgium) , I skuggan av ett mord (Sweden) , Jirones de una honra (Argentina) , The Tattered Dress (United Kingdom) , Elämän ja kuoleman uhkapeluri (Finland) , Kreuzverhör (Austria) , The Tattered Dress (United States of America) , Kreuzverhör , El vestido roto (Spain) , El vestido roto (Venezuela) , The Tattered Dress (Canada)
Plot: 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 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...
IMDB:tt0051058