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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
This Gun for Hire was made during World War 2, and this was a time when the country was worried about traitors, and expecting everyone in the country to do their duty to help the war effort ...
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- Alan Ladd
- Frank Tuttle
- Crime, Drama
Synopsis. 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.
- Frank Tuttle, George Templeton
- Veronica Lake
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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. Raven (Ladd)...
With an intricate plot that requires careful attention, This Gun for Hire is a hugely entertaining movie and a smash-up of elements that would go on to become noir tropes. Fifteen years later, superstar James Cagney paid homage to the film by re-animating Burnett’s screenplay in his single directorial effort, Short Cut to Hell (1957).
