This Gun for Hire
A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
7.0(193) 1942-04-24 81 minCrimeThrillerMystery
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.
DirectorFrank Tuttle
ScreenplayAlbert Maltz
ScreenplayW.R. Burnett
Original Music ComposerDavid Buttolph
Cast & characters
Alan Ladd
as Philip Raven
Veronica Lake
as Ellen Graham
Robert Preston
as Det. Michael Crane
Laird Cregar
as Willard Gates
Tully Marshall
as Alvin Brewster
Marc Lawrence
as Tommy
Olin Howland
as Blair Fletcher
Roger Imhof
as Senator Burnett
Pamela Blake
as Annie
Frank Ferguson
as Albert Baker
Victor Kilian
as Drew
Patricia Farr
as Ruby
Harry Shannon
as Steve Finnerty
Charles Cahill Wilson
as Police Captain
Mikhail Rasumny
as Slukey
Bernadene Hayes
as Albert Baker's Secretary
Mary Davenport
as Salesgirl
Chester Clute
as Rooming House Manager
Charles Arnt
as Male Dressmaker
Earle S. Dewey
as Mr. Collins
Clem Bevans
as Scissor Grinder
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Lynda Grey
as Gates' Secretary
Virita Campbell
as Little Girl
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George Anderson
as Plainclothesman (uncredited)
