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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire

1942Crime drama
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Tully Marshall, Mikhail Rasumny, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Harry Shannon, Frank Ferguson, Bernadene Hayes, Jim Farley, Virita Campbell, Olin Howlin, Roger Imhof, Victor Kilian, Emmett Vogan, Chester Clute, Charles Arnt, Virginia Farmer, Clem Bevans, Harry Hayden, Yvonne De Carlo
Genres
Crime drama

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