This Gun for Hire (1942)

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

★ 7.0 1h 21m Crime · Thriller

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.

Director

Frank Tuttle

Cast

Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Olin Howland, Roger Imhof

Country

United States of America

Released

April 24, 1942