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This Gun for Hire (1942)
Directed by Frank Tuttle
“A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!”
Crime, Thriller · 1h 21m
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.
Cast
Alan Ladd
Philip Raven
Veronica Lake
Ellen Graham
Robert Preston
Det. Michael Crane
Laird Cregar
Willard Gates
Tully Marshall
Alvin Brewster
Marc Lawrence
Tommy
Olin Howland
Blair Fletcher
Roger Imhof
Senator Burnett
Pamela Blake
Annie
Frank Ferguson
Albert Baker
Victor Kilian
Drew
Patricia Farr
Ruby
Crew
- Director
- Frank Tuttle
- Screenplay
- Albert Maltz, W.R. Burnett
- Novel
- Graham Greene
- Director of Photography
- John F. Seitz
- Original Music Composer
- David Buttolph
- Editor
- Archie Marshek
Details
- Release date
- 1942-04-24
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Budget
- $512,423
- Box office
- $1,000,000