This Gun for Hire (1942)
A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
81 min
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.
- Release date
- April 24, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $512,423
- Box office
- $1,000,000
Trailer
Cast
- Alan Ladd as Philip Raven
- Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham
- Robert Preston as 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
Crew
- Frank Tuttle · Director
- Albert Maltz · Writer
- W.R. Burnett · Writer
- Graham Greene · Writer
- David Buttolph · Composer
- John F. Seitz · Cinematographer
- Archie Marshek · Editor