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This Gun for Hire (1942)

Directed by Frank Tuttle

Crime | Drama | Film Noir

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Overview

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates’ lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who’s hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.

Rated NR | Length 81 minutes

Actors

Veronica Lake | Robert Preston | Laird Cregar | Alan Ladd | Tully Marshall | Marc Lawrence | Olin Howland | Roger Imhof | Pamela Blake | Frank Ferguson | Victor Kilian | Patricia Farr | Harry Shannon | Charles C. Wilson | Mikhail Rasumny | Bernadene Hayes | Mary Davenport | Chester Clute | Charles Arnt | Earle S. Dewey | Clem Bevans | Lynda Grey | Virita Campbell | George Anderson | Don Barclay | Ernest Baskett | Jack Baxley | Karin Booth | Harry Brown | William Cabanne | Eddy Chandler | Jack Cheatham | Kenneth Chryst | Yvonne De Carlo | Gordon De Main | Joan Evans | Jim Farley | Virginia Farmer | Betty Farrington | Chuck Hamilton | Sam Harris | Harry Harvey | Harry Hayden | Charles Irwin | Louise La Planche | Lora Lee | Arthur Loft | Patsy Mace | George Magrill | John Marston | Charles McMurphy | Ivan Miller | Charles R. Moore | Frances Morris | Pat O'Malley | Sarah Padden | Reed Porter | Lee Prather | Cyril Ring | Julian Rivero | Dick Rush | Tim Ryan | John Sheehan | Oscar Smith | Alan Speer | Edwin Stanley | Elliott Sullivan | Phil Tead | Emmett Vogan | Fred Walburn | Richard Webb | Pat West | Gloria Williams | Robert Winkler

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Viewing Notes

A great film-noir and the first screen pairing of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, who have great on-screen chemistry.

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