This Gun for Hire
"A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!"
Overview
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.
About This Gun for Hire (1942)
Released in 1942, This Gun for Hire is a crime and thriller film from Paramount Pictures (United States of America). It was directed by Frank Tuttle and written by W.R. Burnett and Albert Maltz. The cast is led by Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar and Tully Marshall. With a runtime of 1h 21m, the film averages 7.0/10 across 201 TMDB ratings. It was made on a budget of $512,423 and went on to gross $1,000,000 worldwide.
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