This Gun for Hire (1942) Watch Online Trailer

Hit man, Raven, is double crossed by nightclub owner Willard Gates who acts as a middleman for a traitorous industrialist, the president of Nitro Chemical, Alvin Brewster. Travelling to Los Angeles to kill his his betrayers, Raven meets up with Ellen Graham a nightclub magician and singer who has just landed a job with Gates. Ellen's fiancée, policeman Lt. Michael Crane is on the trail of Raven.



This Gun for Hire (1942)
Released: 03 Nov 1942
Runtime: 81 min
Rated: PASSED
Director: Frank Tuttle
Writer(s): Albert Maltz (screen play), W.R. Burnett (screen play), Graham Greene (based on the novel by)
Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd
Awards: 1 win.
IMDB Ratings: 7.6



Plot: Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy.