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This Gun for Hire is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Tuttle released in USA on 13 may 1942 with Veronica Lake
This Gun for Hire (1942)
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Add to a movie listThis Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir, directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1936 novel (published in America with the same title, and in Britain with the title A Gun for Sale) by Graham Greene. The film stars Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd.
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In wartime San Francisco, chemist and blackmailer Albert Baker (Frank Ferguson) is killed by hit man Philip Raven (Alan Ladd), who recovers a stolen chemical formula. Raven is double-crossed by his employer, Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), who pays him with marked bills and reports them to the Los Angeles Police Department as stolen from his company, Nitro Chemical. Raven learns of the set up and decides to get revenge. LAPD detective lieutenant Michael Crane (Robert Preston), who is vacationing in San Francisco to visit his girlfriend, nightclub singer Ellen Graham (Veronica Lake), is immediately assigned the case. He goes after Raven, but the assassin eludes him.Actors
Veronica Lake
(Ellen Graham)
Robert Preston
(Det. Michael Crane)
Laird Cregar
(Willard Gates)
Alan Ladd
(Philip Raven)
Marc Lawrence
(Tommy)
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