This Gun for Hire (1942)
Movie
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.
Directed By : Frank Tuttle
Genres : Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Status : Released
Released : Apr 24, 1942
Tagline : A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
Length : 81 minutes
Cast
- Alan Ladd
- Veronica Lake
- Robert Preston
- Laird Cregar
- Tully Marshall
- Marc Lawrence
- Olin Howland
- Roger Imhof
- Pamela Blake
- Frank Ferguson
- Victor Kilian
- Patricia Farr
- Harry Shannon
- Charles C. Wilson
- Mikhail Rasumny
- Bernadene Hayes
- Mary Davenport
- Chester Clute
- Charles Arnt
- Earle S. Dewey
- Clem Bevans
- Lynda Grey
- Virita Campbell
- George Anderson
- Don Barclay
- Ernest Baskett
- Jack Baxley
- Karin Booth
- Harry Brown
- William Cabanne
- Eddy Chandler
- Jack Cheatham
- Kenneth Chryst
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Gordon De Main
- Joan Evans
- Jim Farley
- Virginia Farmer
- Betty Farrington
- Chuck Hamilton
- Sam Harris
- Harry Harvey
- Harry Hayden
- Charles Irwin
- Louise La Planche
- Lora Lee
- Arthur Loft
- Patsy Mace
- George Magrill
- John Marston
- Charles McMurphy
- Ivan Miller
- Charles R. Moore
- Frances Morris
- Pat O'Malley
- Sarah Padden
- Reed Porter
- Lee Prather
- Cyril Ring
- Julian Rivero
- Dick Rush
- Tim Ryan
- John Sheehan
- Oscar Smith
- Alan Speer
- Edwin Stanley
- Elliott Sullivan
- Phil Tead
- Emmett Vogan
- Fred Walburn
- Richard Webb
- Pat West
- Gloria Williams
- Robert Winkler
Crew
- Original Music Composer : David Buttolph
- Art Direction : Hans Dreier
- Executive Producer : Buddy G. DeSylva
- Screenplay : W.R. Burnett
- Makeup Department Head : Wally Westmore
- Novel : Graham Greene
- Screenplay : Albert Maltz
- Editor : Archie Marshek
- Director of Photography : John F. Seitz
- Costume Design : Edith Head
- Director : Frank Tuttle
- Art Direction : Robert Usher
- Associate Producer : Richard Blumenthal
- Assistant Director : George Templeton
- Additional Writing : Frank Tuttle
- Orchestrator : Leo Shuken
- Orchestrator : Walter Scharf
- Special Effects : Farciot Edouart
- Special Effects : Gordon Jennings
- Special Effects : William L. Pereira
- Orchestrator : George Parrish
- Songs : Frank Loesser
- Production Design : Lynd Ward
- Songs : Jacques Press
- Technical Advisor : Marian Chavez
- Publicist : Teet Carle
- Technical Advisor : Jimmy Grippo
- Stunts : Jack Baxley
- Technical Advisor : Frank Herman
- Still Photographer : Mal Bulloch
- Boom Operator : Buck Walters
- Stage Director : George King
- Sound Recordist : John Cope
- Sound Recordist : Philip Wisdom