Film

This Gun for Hire

1942 · 1h 21m · Crime · Thriller · Mystery

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

IMDb

7.4

Rotten Tomatoes

94%

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.

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

Harry Shannon

Steve Finnerty

Charles Cahill Wilson

Police Captain

Mikhail Rasumny

Slukey

Bernadene Hayes

Albert Baker's Secretary

• Frank TuttleDirector
• Albert MaltzScreenplay
• W.R. BurnettScreenplay
• Graham GreeneNovel
• Buddy G. DeSylvaExecutive Producer
• John F. SeitzDirector of Photography
• David ButtolphOriginal Music Composer
• Archie MarshekEditor

This Gun for Hire trailer

Release date

April 24, 1942

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Budget

$512,423

Revenue

$1,000,000

Genres

Crime, Thriller, Mystery

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