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Description by Wikipedia. This Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1936 novel (published in America with the same title, and in Britain with the title A Gun for Sale) by Graham Greene. The film stars Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. The movie made a star of Alan 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).
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 Film Noir directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Robert Preston, Veronica Lake, and Alan Ladd.. Ladd is Philip Raven, a San Francisco hitman with a soft spot for cats, who kills a blackmailer named Baker. Raven retrieves a stolen chemical formula from Baker and brings it to his employer, Willard Gates (Laird Cregar).
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) is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), owner of Nitro Chemical and a suspected traitor by the U.S. government. Ellen (Lake), a beautiful nightclub singer and working ...
18 de jul. de 2000 · This Gun For Hire (1942, USA, 80mins). Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Richard M. Blumenthal Productions for Paramount Prod: Richard Blumenthal Dir: Frank Tuttle Scr: Albert Maltz, W.R. Burnett from the novel by Graham Greene Phot: John F Seitz Ed: Archie Marshek Art Dir: Hans Dreier, Robert Usher Mus: Frank Loesser, Jacques Press Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Tully ...
