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 The Tattered Dress is a 1957 Film Noir Law Procedural written by frequent Douglas Sirk collaborator George Zuckerman and directed by Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man).Glamorous Charleen Reston (Elaine Stewart) comes home with a torn dress and smeared makeup. She tells her husband Michael (Phillip Reed) some version of what happened. In a jealous rage Michael hunts down the man she was with, Larry Bell (Floyd Simmons) and shoots him in the back.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Some time later hotshot New York lawyer James Gordon Blane (Jeff Chandler) travels west by train to serve as Michael Reston’s defense attorney. Traveling with him is journalist Ralph Adams (Edward Platt), who has won a Pulitzer for covering Blane’s antics and is going to Nevada to cover the Reston trial.The Restons welcome Blane and confer with him at their palatial estate. It’s enough for him to gather that neither one feels too badly about what happened to Larry Bell. He gets another welcome from the town’s sheriff Nick Hoak (Jack Carson). Hoak feels very bad about Larry, who was the son of two of his servants and something of a protégé to him.Hoak winds up being Blane’s star witness. While Hoak is on the stand Blane uses his testimony to tar the character of the victim and put Hoak’s competence into question. Blane wins the case and celebrates by taking part in a poker game, where he loses $5,000. As he prepares to leave town Blane is arrested by Hoak and prosecutor Frank Mitchell (Paul Birch) for bribing juror Carol Morrow (Gail Russell) to the tune of the same amount he lost at the table.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Blane’s estranged wife Diane (Jeanne Crain) arrives in town to help him fight the charges, as does Billy Giles (George Tobias), a comedian who Blane got acquitted for killing his wife and her lover. Blane will need all the help he can get, since Sheriff Hoak is a very determined foe.Tropes appearing in this film include:
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