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Hell's Half Acre is a 1954 American film noir black and white crime film directed by John H. Auer starring Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester. [1] It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures.
Hell's Half Acre: Directed by John H. Auer. With Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor. An American woman goes to Hawaii to search for her husband, MIA since the war, but he's a fugitive from the law and involved in a private feud against his former crime syndicate partners.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- John H. Auer
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Apr 19, 2024 · Hell's Half Acre is a 1954 American film noir film directed by John H. Auer starring Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester. It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. Plot: A woman whose husband is declared missing in action after Pearl Harbor flies to Hawaii after the war to conduct her own investigation. Wikipedia.
A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.
Hell's Half Acre (1954) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The only film noir set in Hawaii, John H. Auer’s Hell’s Half Acre replaces the beauty of the islands with a seedy, grimy subculture where gangsters, prostitutes (“taxi dancers”), and shakedown artists congregate at night in the titular neighborhood, a crowded, elevated tenement area like a miniature Casbah teeming with crime. After two ...
Hell’s Half Acre – or simply 'the Acre', as habitués call it – is a multi-storey warren of dosshouses, taxi-dance-halls, all-night gambling dens, and hard-angled back alleys steeped in shadows and the sodden detritus of the previous night’s debauchery.
