This Gun for Hire (1942)
"A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!"
Critics Score
🎬 94%
(RT: 94%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Alan Ladd as Philip Raven
Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham
Laird Cregar as Willard Gates
Tully Marshall as Alvin Brewster
Olin Howland as Blair Fletcher
Roger Imhof as Senator Burnett
Is This Gun for Hire good?
Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 94%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
