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Hell's Half Acre

  • 1954
  • Approved
  • 1h 30min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.2/10
719
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Philip Ahn, Wendell Corey, Nancy Gates, Evelyn Keyes, and Marie Windsor in Hell's Half Acre (1954)
AcciónAventuraCrimenDramaFilm NoirMisterio

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAn 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.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.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.

  • Dirección
    • John H. Auer
  • Guionista
    • Steve Fisher
  • Elenco
    • Wendell Corey
    • Evelyn Keyes
    • Elsa Lanchester
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.2/10
    719
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • John H. Auer
    • Guionista
      • Steve Fisher
    • Elenco
      • Wendell Corey
      • Evelyn Keyes
      • Elsa Lanchester
    • 17Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 13Opiniones de los críticos
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
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    Wendell Corey
    Wendell Corey
    • Chet Chester
    Evelyn Keyes
    Evelyn Keyes
    • Donna Williams
    Elsa Lanchester
    Elsa Lanchester
    • Lida O'Reilly
    Marie Windsor
    Marie Windsor
    • Rose Otis
    Nancy Gates
    Nancy Gates
    • Sally Lee
    Leonard Strong
    Leonard Strong
    • Ippy
    Jesse White
    Jesse White
    • Tubby Otis
    Keye Luke
    Keye Luke
    • Chief Dan
    Philip Ahn
    Philip Ahn
    • Roger Kong
    Robert Shield
    • Frank Ulman
    Clair Widenaar
    • Jamison
    Robert Costa
    • 'Slim' Novak
    Leimomi Chung
    • Singer
    • (sin créditos)
    Akira Fukunaga
    • Filipino
    • (sin créditos)
    Lehua Lima
    • Singer
    • (sin créditos)
    Robert M. Luck
    • Harry
    • (sin créditos)
    Tiger Joe Marsh
    • George
    • (sin créditos)
    Kuuleialihi Punua
    • Singer
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • John H. Auer
    • Guionista
      • Steve Fisher
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    Opiniones de usuarios17

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    carolynpaetow

    Aloha Noir

    This flat-footed, full-of-holes feature is nonetheless fascinating because of its Honolulu locale and exotic characters. Marie Windsor as Jesse White's wife and Philip Ahn's mistress? Film noir nirvana! And the Production Code vision of a hellish den of iniquity? A crisply clean framework of lumber and whitewash enclosing gambling parlors and taxi-dancehalls!
    searchanddestroy-1

    Enchanted exotic film noir

    I am not surprised by this Republic Pictures film noir, this studios was famous for mixing up some genres, western musicals, modern western, so why not exotic adventure crime noir movie? This one is not uninteresting because of its charm and atmosphere, and this story of the wife seeking her husband trace, supposed killed in action at Pearl harbor, this scheme is rather unusual in a film noir. This is a cute little crime flick from this studios specialized in serials and westerns. Wendell Corey seems to get bored, not convinced by his character, maybe the studio executive Herbert Yates should have chosen Forrest Tucker or Rod Cameron, the "home" studio stars, instead of Corey. And I was expecting the bland but not that bad Vera Ralston, Yates's wife, as the female role.
    dougdoepke

    What Tourist Brochures Don't Show

    As I recall this little slice of b&w exotica got quite a bit of buzz back then. No doubt, that was because of the naughty innuendo and unusual locale. 1954 was before Hawaii became a state or showed up on weekly TV, so the backgrounds and people were still foreign to American living rooms. Anyway, the plot's anything but tight, running two or three threads at the same time. There's no need to recap what others have already done in detail.

    What carries the film are the Hawaiian 'mise-en-scene', colorful characters, and good acting. Honolulu's Half Acre amounts to a hellish maze of rickety stairs, balconies, and walkways, all used to good effect by director Auer. Couple that with a noir character like Chester (Corey), a bosomy slut like Rose (Windsor, of course), and a slimy yucko like Ippy (Strong), along with other shady types, and who cares about plot logic. As a result, the visuals and characters rivet even when the narrative doesn't. Still, what's with Tubby (White) who gets bloodlessly shot in the shoulder and seconds later pulls a Tarzan escape with perfect coordination. Even cowboy matinees are more realistic than that, and who knew matinees better than Republic. All in all, it looks like a feature length appeal was aimed at, including something of a 'name' cast and a spicy story. Still, I'd like to know how the results actually performed dollar-wise. Nonetheless, the movie's not without points of interest, along with an ending that is not predictable, plus a Hawaii that sure doesn't show up on tourist brochures.
    8clanciai

    A noir in Hawaii as an interesting experiment

    The story is interesting. After a honeymoon of three days Wendell Corey has to break up to serve in the war and happens to Pearl Harbour, where he is almost killed but not quite, but he survives with his face damaged for life. He gets stuck on Hawaii and tries to make a life of his own there in a casbah-like nest of murky activitieds, where he gets mixed up with local rackets but also makes some local career as a singing poet. His wife back home has received news that he is reported missiing, supposed dead, in which assumed fact she lives on for years, until she hears a song of his and recognizes his words on a modern record. She goes to Hawaii to search for him while he gets deeper involved with murders and rackets and refuses to acknowledge her or his life before the war. Of course there are further complications.

    Wendell Corey was never a favourite actor of mine, he was almost a disappointment to me in every film I saw him in for hisstiffness and lack of expression, but this film is saved by the story. The other actors are rather mediocre as well, but fortunately there is Elsa Lanchester as a helpful taxi driver, who actually contributes in saving the film. The local touch is also excellent, with sweet ukuleles singing and swinging all over the place and everywhere you go, and the environment is lovely and enchanting, of course. Only Wendell Corey is not, and he is only saved by the sad story of his fate.
    6bkoganbing

    Aloha Oy Vez

    It's almost mandatory that when you film in Hawaii you film in color. But that would have put Herbert J. Yates and Republic Pictures on the horns of a dilemma. They were making a noir film set in Honolulu which is most often done in black and white anyway. And Yates was trying mightily to keep his studio afloat with the advent of television which overtaking Republic's bread and butter, B westerns.

    Evelyn Keyes and Wendell Corey star in this film where Evelyn hears that the husband she thought lost on the Arizona in December of 1941 is on trial for murder in Honolulu. She goes to Hawaii to investigate. Corey the long lost husband is now a syndicate big shot and has confessed to killing a former partner. A third partner Philip Ahn is looking to take advantage of the situation and inherit all of Corey's assets.

    No sooner does Keyes arrive in Hawaii than she's hip deep in the case when she tries to visit Corey's current girlfriend Nancy Gates. She spots Ahn near the home where he has just recently murdered Gates. That puts both Corey on a personal hunt and the Honolulu PD on a hunt for Ahn.

    I have to say that while Ahn has played villains before, he was never quite as brutal as he is in this film. His opposite number Keye Luke plays Honolulu's chief of police and he's a wise and compassionate soul and really in the end comes through for Keyes. Corey also does the decent thing in the end.

    A couple of other interesting roles are Jesse White as a hapless drunken gunsill and his slattern of a wife Marie Windsor who next to Gloria Grahame played the most tramps of the Fifties.

    Some story plot holes that you could have driven the Arizona through when it was afloat unfortunately mar Hell's Half Acre. But the characterizations are just fine. I only wish that color had been used because having been to Hawaii black and white doesn't do it justice.

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    • Errores
      While Donna Williams and Lida O'Reilly are talking in Lida's cab, they drive past the same distinctive parked car (an MG-TD) three times.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai'i (2016)
    • Bandas sonoras
      Polynesian Rhapsody
      Written by Jack Pitman (as Jack Pittman)

      Sung by The Kaumakapili Choir

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    Detalles

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 1 de junio de 1954 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitios oficiales
      • Streaming on "DK Classics X" YouTube Channel
      • Streaming on "Ferid Records" YouTube Channel
    • Idiomas
      • Inglés
      • Japonés
    • También se conoce como
      • Razzia im Chinesenviertel
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawái, Estados Unidos
    • Productora
      • Republic Pictures
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 30 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White

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