Box set: Film Noir Collection

This Gun For Hire

Paramount (1942)

Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Thriller
 /   / Black And White / 81 mins
5050582520507 
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In Collection
#701
7.6

Plot

Hit man, Raven, is double crossed by nightclub owner Willard Gates who acts as a middleman for a traitorous industrialist, the president of Nitro Chemical, Alvin Brewster. Travelling to Los Angeles to kill his his betrayers, Raven meets up with Ellen Graham a nightclub magician and singer who has just landed a job with Gates. Ellen's fiancée, policeman Lt. Michael Crane is on the trail of Raven.

Cast

Alan Ladd Philip Raven
Veronica Lake Ellen Graham
Frank Ferguson Albert Baker
Bernadene Hayes Baker's Secretary
Pamela Blake Annie
Marc Lawrence Tommy
Robert Preston Michael Crane
Mikhail Rasumny Sluky
Harry Shannon Steve Finnerty

Crew

Director
Frank Tuttle
Producer Richard Blumenthal
Writer Albert Maltz , W.R. Burnett

Trailer

Edition Details

Release Date 2007
Packaging Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Images

Poster
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