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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).
A hitman (Alan Ladd) is framed by his employer (Laird Cregar) and pursued by a cop (Robert Preston) and his girlfriend (Veronica Lake). IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this classic film.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Frank Tuttle
- 1942-09-19
Watch the 1942 American film noir based on Graham Greene's novel, starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, and Laird Cregar. Read reviews, synopsis, and more from Internet Archive.
- 81 min
- 22,2K
- Enid Montague508
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven (Alan Ladd) becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates (Laird...
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- Alan Ladd
- Frank Tuttle
- Crime, Drama
This Gun for Hire é um filme estadunidense de 1942, do gênero policial noir, dirigido por Frank Tuttle e estrelado por Alan Ladd e Veronica Lake. Uma das primeiras manifestações do noir, [1] This Gun for Hire transformou Ladd em astro da noite para o dia, [2] ele que já labutava há dez anos em Hollywood.
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.
In San Francisco, during World War II, Philip Raven, a cold-blooded hired killer, awakens fully dressed from his late morning sleep to carry out a job. He is to murder Albert Baker, a chemist in possession of Nitrochemical Corporation's formula for poison gas, which he is using to blackmail the Los Angeles-based company.
