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The Tattered Dress (1957)

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 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.

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Top billed cast

Jeff ChandlerJames Gordon Blane
Jeanne CrainDiane Blane
Jack CarsonSheriff Nick Hoak
Gail RussellCarol Morrow
Elaine StewartCharleen Reston
George TobiasBilly Giles
Edward AndrewsLester Rawlings
Phillip ReedMichael Reston
Edward PlattRalph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)
Paul BirchProsecutor Frank Mitchell

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