This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire (1942)

A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!

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.

Date of release
1942-04-24
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (198)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Director
Frank Tuttle

Casting

  • 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

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