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Um Pedaço de Inferno

Título original: Hell's Half Acre
  • 1954
  • Approved
  • 1 h 30 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,2/10
722
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Philip Ahn, Wendell Corey, Nancy Gates, Evelyn Keyes, and Marie Windsor in Um Pedaço de Inferno (1954)
Filme NoirAçãoAventuraCrimeDramaMistério

Adicionar um enredo no seu 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.

  • Direção
    • John H. Auer
  • Roteirista
    • Steve Fisher
  • Artistas
    • Wendell Corey
    • Evelyn Keyes
    • Elsa Lanchester
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,2/10
    722
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • John H. Auer
    • Roteirista
      • Steve Fisher
    • Artistas
      • Wendell Corey
      • Evelyn Keyes
      • Elsa Lanchester
    • 17Avaliações de usuários
    • 13Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
  • Veja as informações de produção no 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
    • (não creditado)
    Akira Fukunaga
    • Filipino
    • (não creditado)
    Lehua Lima
    • Singer
    • (não creditado)
    Robert M. Luck
    • Harry
    • (não creditado)
    Tiger Joe Marsh
    • George
    • (não creditado)
    Kuuleialihi Punua
    • Singer
    • (não creditado)
    • Direção
      • John H. Auer
    • Roteirista
      • Steve Fisher
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    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.
    6boblipton

    Honolulu Gets Dark At Night

    Evelyn Keyes flies to Hawaii. According to Navy records, he was killed at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. However, Wendell Corey has just been arrested by the Honolulu police for murder, and the picture in the papers looks like her husband, twelve years older and with a scar. She can't be sure, so she shows up at police chief Philip Ahn's office, only to find that Corey has fled into the city's red light district.

    This might be set in Hawaii, but despite the sunlit views of the Big Island and the languid steel guitars, director John H. Auer leads us into a darkening and corrupt world that it all looks and sounds menacing, despite the low-key acting of the two leads. It's not great, but it's always interesting, with nice turns by Elsa Lanchester, Marie Wilson and Jesse White.
    7hitchcockthelegend

    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 fatales, shifty criminal acquaintances and coppers. Which is not bad for a guy who was apparently killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor! The Hell's Half Acre of the tile is what is termed in the film as a shabby tenement district, this is the seedy underbelly of what we know as the paradise island. The location makes for some excellent atmospheric noir touches, with the production line abodes and the ream of wooden stairs and banisters making for a moody backdrop. At night the shadows come in to play, hanging nicely off of the alleyways and tawdry bars.

    Dirty Rat!

    Though a little too contrived for its own good, the many characterisations on show make the annoying itches easily scratched. From two-timing dames and thugs in need of anger management - to alcoholic slobs and batty taxi drivers, this has a roll call of colourful people drifting in and out of Hell's Half Acre. There's even some censor baiting going on, though the whiff of violent misogyny could have been less pungent.

    Some serious noir credentials are found with the makers, Auer (City That Never Sleeps), Fisher (I Wake Up Screaming), Corey (The Big Knife), Keyes (The Prowler), Windsor (The Narrow Margin), Gates (Suddenly), Lanchester (The Big Clock) and Russell (Moonrise), and that's only really scratching the surface. With its distinctive setting and well controlled unfurling of noir conventions, this is well worth a look by the noir faithful. 7/10
    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.
    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.

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    • Erros de gravação
      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.
    • Conexões
      Featured in Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai'i (2016)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      Polynesian Rhapsody
      Written by Jack Pitman (as Jack Pittman)

      Sung by The Kaumakapili Choir

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      • 1 de junho de 1954 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
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    • Idiomas
      • Inglês
      • Japonês
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      • Hell's Half Acre
    • Locações de filme
      • Honolulu, O'ahu, Havaí, EUA
    • Empresa de produção
      • Republic Pictures
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      • 1 h 30 min(90 min)
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