Noir City: Hell's Half Acre (35mm)
February 14, 2025
Ready for a hundred-proof dose of “Tiki Noir?” Evelyn Keyes goes undercover as a taxi-dancer in Honolulu’s notorious red-light district searching for her missing GI husband. Toss sultry and statuesque Marie Windsor into the mix and it’s noir Nirvana with a slack-key guitar soundtrack.
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Friday, February 14, 2025
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Are you ready for a hundred-proof dose of “Tiki Noir?” Evelyn Keyes goes undercover as a taxi dancer in Honolulu’s notorious red-light district searching for her missing GI husband (Wendell Corey)—her only clue the recording of a Hawaiian love ballad with lyrics eerily similar to love letters she received during the war. Little does she know her guy is more than a simple songsmith—he’s now a gangster vying with Philip Ahn for control of the island’s vice rackets. Toss sultry and statuesque Marie Windsor into the mix and it’s noir Nirvana with a slack-key guitar soundtrack ... as fun as B movies get! Note courtesy of Noir City. 35mm collection print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
- Director: John H. Auer
- Principal Cast: Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor
- Country: USA
- Year: 1954
- Running Time: 90 min.
- Producer: John H. Auer
- Screenplay: Steve Fisher
- Cinematographers: John L. Russell
- Editors: Fred Allen
- Music: R. Dale Butts
- Filmography: Pan-Americana (1945), Moonlight Masquerade (1942)
- Language: English
- Format: 35mm
- US Distributor: Paramount Pictures