The Tattered Dress (1957)

Here is a film I was searching for forever! A great modernistic film noir starring Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Gail Russell, and Elaine Stewart. Directed by Jack Arnold. Synopsis: "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..." Hope you enjoy this great rare film noir was very excited to have found it!

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[lalalauren409]

I really wish I could know what it was like to live in the 50's and 60's. I was born in 1994 but if i could go back in time i would travel to the great 50's!!!

[MarthaDelios]

Film noir junkies, like yours truly, are for ever grateful for this. Thank you so much.

[rooitenen]

Thanks a bunch ! What a pity we can't watch those films on TCM! Jeff Chandler was one

of my favourite actors. He definitely did not get what he deserved.

[ThePiscean60]

great channel, just subscribed! and many thanks for uploading entire films!

Cheers and carry on!

[ellesmithfagan]

@ronandgail123 partly her fault...she only got into showbiz for the money - her Mother told her take the job, they needed the money. She never mastered her shyness and worse...tried drink to help and it did but she died from alcohol at 36..."Angel and the Badman" an iconic film for her and she had some attachment to John Wayne and vice versa. Her tragic roles WERE her. Driven.

[ellesmithfagan]

@lalalauren409 Some things were lovely- most people believed and lived the traditional values, and the line between legal and illegal was respected - no pot. But in some ways the 40s were better..more wholesome. I was born in 1947 - a film buff in girlhood, my son has one of his degrees in film. The 50s were fun and pretty but sharper and ultra-conservative in many ways, the wholesomeness gone and people proud of their evil as in this film.

[ellesmithfagan]

Super film - thank you!

Only Saint Jeff Chandler could make us sympathetic with the murderous millionaires and with his own character - the lawyer who wins for rich guilty people. Noir, indeed. Jack Carson could DO that - goodguy/badguy - so well! Chandller died at 42, from back surgery complications. Jeanne Crain married and had 7 children, after partygirl youth. I loved Gail Russell, of "Angel and the Badman" - but her tragic role here is 'spot-on' - died from alcohol at 36.

[psychkoala]

Interesting film. I found the courtroom dialogue somewhat cheesy and a bit strange; but thought the other scenes were great. Very good acting for the most part, and yes, the sheriff was a fantastic (but very convincing) combination of easygoing charm and hidden menace.

We've all met people like that.

Great atmosphere, too, and the actresses were gorgeous.

[MrGregorychant]

Thread by thread, stitching it together . . .

[tigranvartanovitch]

Those two thugs who beat up Jeff Chandler were really sporting. They allowed him to get to his feet before hitting him again.