This Gun for Hire

1942·81'

Frank Tuttle

ThrillerMysteryCrime

★ 7.0

Letterboxd TMDB #16703

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

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.

Cast

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