Film Noir Review: The Tattered Dress Starring Jeff Chandler

This 1957 film noir actually qualifies more of a courtroom drama where Jeffrey Chandler plays a sharpie New York City criminal attorney. He's hired by a wealthy couple in Nevada to defend the wife against a homicide charge. When he arrives in town, he finds a frosty reception, including from the shady sheriff played by Jack Carson. After Chandler gets the wife off free, he's slapped with a juror bribery charge and winds up on trial himself. Most of the action occurs inside the courtroom, and Chandler makes a fairly dramatic lawyer with a deep baritone voice. His newspaper friend/sidekick is Edward Platt, also later to be seen as Don Adams' boss in the TV spy spoof sitcom Get Smart. The director Jack Arnold is better known for his 1950s science fiction films like Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Tattered Dress didn't thrill me maybe because I was expecting something different. Still, it's competently acted with an entertaining plot. I watched it on YouTube at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XYyIvEpabY