This Gun for Hire

Drama

1942

1h 18m

Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven (Alan Ladd) becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates (Laird Cregar), Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen (Veronica Lake), on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant (Robert Preston) 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.

Starring	Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Tully Marshall, Mikhail Rasumny, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Harry Shannon, Frank Ferguson, Bernadene Hayes, Jim Farley, Roger Imhof, Victor Kilian, Emmett Vogan, Chester Clute, Charles Arnt, Virginia Farmer, Clem Bevans, Harry Hayden, Olin Howland, Yvonne De Carlo
Genres	Drama , Romance , Suspense , Crime
Studios	Universal Studios
Popular UPC	2519255002