The Tattered Dress

Overview

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.

Directed by Jack Arnold

Top cast

Jeff Chandler

James Gordon Blane

Jeanne Crain

Diane Blane

Jack Carson

Sheriff Nick Hoak

Gail Russell

Carol Morrow

Elaine Stewart

Charleen Reston

George Tobias

Billy Giles

Edward Andrews

Lester Rawlings

Phillip Reed

Michael Reston

Edward Platt

Ralph Adams, Reporter

Paul Birch

Prosecutor Frank Mitchell

Alexander Lockwood

Paul Vernon

Edwin Jerome

Judge David L. Johnson

William Schallert

Court Clerk

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June McCall

Girl at Slot Machine

Frank J. Scannell

Cal Morrison, Blackjack Dealer

Floyd Simmons

Larry Bell

Ziva Rodann

Woman on Train

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Marina Orschel

Girl by Pool

Ingrid Goude

Girl by Pool

Fred Aldrich

Man on Courthouse Steps (uncredited)

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