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This Gun for Hire (1942) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 6, 2004
Running Time
1 hour, 20 minutes
Country USA
Studio Paramount
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Other Titles
• This Gun for Hire
• Die Narbenhand (1952)
• Short Cut to Hell
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir, Suspense, Revenge, Blackmail, Detectives, Murder, World War II, Police, Kidnapping
Tagline: He's dynamite with a gun or a girl.
Plot: 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.
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Related Movies:
- version of This Gun for Hire (1991)
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Graham Greene
The Third Man, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair | Albert Maltz
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