This Gun for Hire (1942)
- Directed by
- Frank Tuttle
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 191 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A cold-blooded hitman becomes entangled in a web of betrayal and corruption after a job goes wrong. He teams up with a nightclub singer to pursue a traitorous businessman while staying one step ahead of the police.
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What happens
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene (published in the United States with the same title as the film). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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