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This Gun for Hire
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.
1942 · Directed by Frank Tuttle · 81 min · Crime · Thriller · Mystery · 9 frames
Tagline
A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
Crew
- Screenplay: W.R. Burnett, Albert Maltz
- Cinematography: John F. Seitz
- Edited by: Archie Marshek
- Music: David Buttolph
- Production design: Lynd Ward
Cast
- Alan Ladd as Philip Raven
- Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham
- Robert Preston as Det. Michael Crane
- Laird Cregar as Willard Gates
- Tully Marshall as Alvin Brewster
- Marc Lawrence as Tommy
- Olin Howland as Blair Fletcher
- Roger Imhof as Senator Burnett
- Pamela Blake as Annie
- Frank Ferguson as Albert Baker
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures
- Budget: $512,423
- Box office: $1,000,000
- Themes: police, hitman, propaganda, cat, paranoia, femme fatale, film noir, conspiracy, black and white, train
On this film
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