In March 1957, Arlene Dahl sued Columbia in New York Supreme Court, charging that some images used to promote "Wicked as They Come" were composites of her face and another woman's body and that the resulting pictures were "obscene, degrading and offensive." In August 1957, the case was dismissed by New York Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg.
In the 50s, a number of movies about rape or multiple rape began to appear; in this case, at the end it shows why she hated and used men, because as a teenager she was raped.