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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 | Alan Ladd | Robert Preston | Laird Cregar | 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 | Jack Baxley | Karin Booth | Harry Brown | William Cabanne | Eddy Chandler | Jack Cheatham | Yvonne De Carlo | Gordon De Main | Jim Farley | Virginia Farmer | Betty Farrington | Chuck Hamilton | Sam Harris | Harry Hayden | Charles Irwin | Arthur Loft | George Magrill | John Marston | Charles McMurphy | Ivan Miller | Charles R. Moore | Frances Morris | Pat O'Malley | Sarah Padden | Lee Prather | Cyril Ring | Julian Rivero | Dick Rush | Tim Ryan | John Sheehan | Oscar Smith | Edwin Stanley | Elliott Sullivan | Phil Tead | Emmett Vogan | Fred Walburn | Richard Webb | Pat West | Gloria Williams | Robert Winkler | Ernest Baskett | Kenneth Chryst | Harry Harvey | Joan Evans | Louise La Planche | Lora Lee | Patsy Mace | Reed Porter | Alan Speer

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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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