The Tattered Dress
The story of The Tattered Dress ... that exposed a town's hidden evil !
A noir-inflected courtroom drama about a slick defense lawyer ensnared by a small Nevada town's corruption and moral rot, where infidelity and murder collide with institutional betrayal.
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.
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