Hal E. Chester
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Hal Chester started his career as a child actor in the United States, but in the mid-1950s moved to Britain, where he is remembered as the producer of films including the classic horror Night of the Demon (1957), as well as School for Scoundrels (1960).
Department: Production
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, NY
Birthday: March 06, 1921
Deathday: January 01, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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East Side Kids
Overview: After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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Boys of the City
Overview: Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-15
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Hit the Road
Overview: Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Off the Record
Overview: After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-21
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Sea Raiders
Overview: A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-13
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Newsboys' Home
Overview: A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-24
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Little Tough Guy
Overview: The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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You're Not So Tough
Overview: The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Crime School
Overview: In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-10
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Little Tough Guys in Society
Overview: A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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The Witness Vanishes
Overview: In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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Code of the Streets
Overview: Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Junior G-Men
Overview: A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
Genres: Adventure Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Juvenile Court
Overview: Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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