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This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American FILM NOlR crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene (published in America with the same title as the film).
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Hit man Philip Raven (Alan Ladd) is hired by Willard Gates...
- This Gun for Hire 1942 colorized (Alan Ladd) - Archive.org
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene (published in America with the same title as the film).
Dec 7, 2023 · Hit man Philip Raven (Alan Ladd) is hired by Willard Gates (Laird Cregar) to get rid of a blackmailer. But Raven turns on his employer when he finds out he was paid with marked bills.
- 78 min
- 1523
- George Fergus
This Gun for Hire: Directed by Frank Tuttle. With Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd. When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
- (11K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Frank Tuttle
Adapting one of Graham Greene’s most entertaining works, Frank Tuttle directs the action from nightclubs to night trains to chemical plants to rail yards, each sequence nourishing the almost supernatural chemistry between Ladd and Veronica Lake in their first on-screen pairing.
Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in This Gun for Hire, a hard-edged story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's.
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In the US it was known as This Gun For Hire, and the film transports the action from the UK to California. Alan Ladd takes the lead role of Raven, a taciturn assassin whose latest job goes horribly wrong.
