Top billed cast

1. 

   Wendell Corey

   Chet Chester, aka Randy Williams

2. 

   Evelyn Keyes

   Donna Williams

3. 

   Elsa Lanchester

   Lida O'Reilly

4. 

   Marie Windsor

   Rose

5. 

   Nancy Gates

   Sally Lee

6. 

   Leonard Strong

   Ippy

7. 

   Jesse White

   Tubby Otis

8. 

   Keye Luke

   Police Chief Dan

9. 

   Philip Ahn

   Roger Kong

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2017-03-08

Case History of Chet Chester.

Hell's Half Acre is directed by John H. Auer and written by Steve Fisher. It stars Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, Nancy Gates and Leonard Strong. Music is by R. Dale Butts and cinematography by John L. Russell.

Filmed and set in Hawaii, one could be forgiven for thinking this couldn't possibly work as a piece of film noir. In fact, the opening credit sequences lends one to think this could well be a frothy Elvis Presley type of movie - but it most assuredly isn't.

Cash or Cave in?

Story has Corey up to his neck in femme fa...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• hawaii
• film noir
• b movie
• tiki culture