This Gun for Hire (1942)

Synopsis: In this classic film noir, tough-guy thriller, Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell... In this classic film noir, tough-guy thriller, Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. A hired gun, Raven is kind to everyone but his targets, and when he kills an extortionist and receives stolen money in compensation, he becomes the target of a Senate investigation that leads him to set his gunsight on Ellen. [More]

Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Marc Lawrence

Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Marc Lawrence, Mikhail Rasumny, Pamela Blake, Harry Shannon, Frank Ferguson, Bernadene Hayes

Director: Frank Tuttle

Director: Frank Tuttle
Producer: Richard M. Blumenthal
Screenwriter: W.R. Burnett
Composer: David Buttolph

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