The Tattered Dress

1957

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1045 1K

nevada anti hero crooked lawyer film noir courtroom jury tampering

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Plot summary

After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her 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.

Director

Jack Arnold Photo
Jack Arnold

Top cast

John Alban Photo
John Alban as Courtroom Spectator
Curt Furburg Photo
Curt Furburg as Courtroom Spectator
George Ford Photo
George Ford as Casino Patron
Kenneth Gibson Photo
Kenneth Gibson as Reporter
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853.7 MB
1280*548
English 2.0
Approved
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24 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.55 GB
1920*822
English 2.0
Approved
us  
24 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Martin B 6 / 10

Chandler always a commanding presence and beautiful women

Chandler always a commanding presence and beautiful women in this one but yikes that was a horrible script. A murderer gets off Scott free, charges brought against Chandlers character with no witnesses and he’s set free based solely on his closing arguments where he basically admitted he screwed everything up. Not one piece of evidence corroborating the charges or refuting them by the defense either…..awful. A surprise murder at the end and the stars walk off as if nothing happened for the perfect silly ending to horrible writing. Watch it to find out how bad writing can betray a good cast.
Reviewed by SICKS6SIX 6 / 10

Better that the average B film, worth watching

better that the average B film, worth watching, passes a wet afternoon away fairly well,
Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Well-Done But Unlikely Courtroom Drama

Big-shot trial lawyer Jeff Chandler gets a client off for a murder in Nevada. The murdered man had been a friend of sheriff Jack Carson. Carson frames Chandler for bribing a juror. When the attorney Chandler and long-suffering ex-wife Jeanne Crain hire begins to talk about plea deals, Chandler fires him and conducts his own defense.It's directed by the under-rated Jack Arnold, who is best remembered for some fine, subtext-laden monster movies of the era. With Chandler's dramatic, rumbling voice, however, it turns into a well-told soap opera, with undertones of danger from Carson, who is very good in his part. I'm afraid I was put off by the slovenly-lawyered courtroom scenes, in which attorneys accepted hearsay evidence without a whimper, and verdicts that seem unlikely. Other cast members include Edward Platt as a reporter whose job seems to be to follow around Chandler, George Tobias as a not-too-funny comic, Gail Russell as the woman who accuses Chandler of bribery, and Elaine Stewart as a rather dumb blonde.
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