
This Gun for Hire
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.
Release Date: 1942-04-24
Crime
Thriller
Mystery
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Casts

Veronica Lake
as Ellen Graham

Robert Preston
as Det. Michael Crane

Laird Cregar
as Willard Gates

Alan Ladd
as Philip Raven

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