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Hell's half acre [videorecording (DVD)].

Olive Films : Paramount Pictures, 2013.

False imprisonment -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Written by Steve Fisher ; associate produced directed by John H. Auer.

Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes and Elsa Lanchester with Marie Windsor and Nancy Gates.

"Hell’s Half Acre is a 1954 film noir set in Hawaii; John H. Auer (City That Never Sleeps) directed this tale of Ex-racketeer, Chet Chester (Wendell Corey) who is blackmailed by his former criminal partners. Chester’s girlfriend Sally (Nancy Gates) kills one of his enemies, but Chester takes the blame, assuming that he has enough clout to escape with a lighter sentence. Meanwhile, Dona Williams (Evelyn Keyes) arrives on the scene, certain that Chester is her long-lost husband. When Sally is murdered, Chester escapes from Jail intending to find her killer and clear his name. Written by film noir veteran, Steve Fisher (I Wake Up Screaming) and shot by legendary cinematographer John L. Russell (Psycho). The stellar cast includes Elsa Lanchester, Jesse White and noir goddess Marie Windsor (Force of Evil)."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Auer, John H., 1906-1975.

Corey, Wendell, 1914-1968.

Keyes, Evelyn, 1916-2008.

Lanchester, Elsa, 1902-1986.

Windsor, Marie.

Gates, Nancy, 1926-

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