Hal E. Chester

Hal E. Chester

Born: March 6, 1921
Died: January 1, 2012
in Brooklyn, NY
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).

Movies for Hal E. Chester...

Sea Raiders
Title: Sea Raiders
Character: Swab
Released: October 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Hit the Road
Title: Hit the Road
Character: Trusty
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Murph
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Second Newsboy
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Buster
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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East Side Kids
Title: East Side Kids
Character: Fred "Dutch" Kuhn
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Code of the Streets
Title: Code of the Streets
Character: Murph
Released: April 13, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Reform School Inmate
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Newsboys' Home
Title: Newsboys' Home
Character: Murphy
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
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Little Tough Guys in Society
Title: Little Tough Guys in Society
Character: Murphy
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A society matron invites the gang to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Lefty
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Little Tough Guy
Title: Little Tough Guy
Character: Dopey
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
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.