The Tattered Dress
[2] In a California resort community, the wealthy Michael Reston is charged with the murder of a man he claimed attacked his wife, Charleen.Blane ultimately is found not guilty due to the obvious possibility that the sheriff framed him in retaliation for his successful defense of Reston.The juror, Carol Morrow, who only lied about the bribery because she was romantically involved with the sheriff, becomes distraught when he rejects her out of fear his manipulation will be discovered.[7] Biographer Dana M. Reemes in Directed by Jack Arnold (1988) writes that the production provided “opportunities for considerable directorial creativity…The best example of this is without doubt the film’s prologue, which is very cinematic and utterly without dialogue.”[8] A sports car convertible speeds along a winding hillside road at night, driven by an attractive blond in a cocktail dress — “an expression of cynical self-satisfaction” on her face.The sequence cuts to a lone young man walking on a dark city street, who has fingernail scratch marks on his face.