This Gun for Hire
Lover without a heart...killer without a conscience!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 6, 2004
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake & Robert Preston | |
Performer: | Marc Lawrence, Mikhail Rasumny, Pamela Blake, Harry Shannon, Frank Ferguson & Bernadene Hayes | |
Directed by | Frank Tuttle | |
Edited by | Archie Marshek | |
Screenwriting by | W.R. Burnett | |
Composition by | David Buttolph | |
Produced by | Richard M. Blumenthal | |
Director of Photography: | John F. Seitz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
This is the film noir that made Alan Ladd a hot star after many years as a struggling actor.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B+ --
Well acted crime melodrama that catapulted Alan Ladd to major stardom.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
For good reason it made Alan Ladd a star.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 5/5 --
Catapulted Alan Ladd to stardom, established Ladd and Veronica Lake as a screen team and is just plain as close to a perfect representation of film noir as you're likely to get.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The film's thrilling bullet-laden finale, fast pace and lovely black-and-white photography more than makes up for some of the overt misogyny that was common in this genre and era.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
A great vein of noir tropes, greatly mined
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CinePassion
Rating: 4/5 --
Noir favorite; Ladd and Lake are a gangbusters team.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Description by OLDIES.com:
One of Hollywood's classic hard-boiled thrillers and a favorite of suspense film lovers. The picture marked the first hit pairing of tough guy Alan Ladd, in the role that made him an instant star, and sultry blonde bombshell Veronica Lake.
Adapted from a novel by Graham Greene, it's the hard-edged story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. Raven (Alan Ladd) is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client. Ellen (Veronica Lake) is a beautiful nightclub singer who's spying on her corrupt boss. Lt. Michael Crane (Robert Preston) is a dedicated cop who wants Ellen's love and Raven's capture. The tension mounts and before the case is wrapped up, someone will pay with his life.
Adapted from a novel by Graham Greene, it's the hard-edged story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. Raven (Alan Ladd) is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client. Ellen (Veronica Lake) is a beautiful nightclub singer who's spying on her corrupt boss. Lt. Michael Crane (Robert Preston) is a dedicated cop who wants Ellen's love and Raven's capture. The tension mounts and before the case is wrapped up, someone will pay with his life.
Product Description:
In this classic tough-guy film noir, genre mainstay Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gun-for-hire who is out for revenge. Veronica Lake is Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. Raven is kind to everyone that's not a target but, after he kills an extortionist and receives stolen money in compensation, he himself becomes the target of a Senate investigation that ultimately puts Ellen in his crosshairs.
Keywords:
Action
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Vengeance
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Film Noir
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Blackmail
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Recommended
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Crime
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Hit Men
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Essential Cinema
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Ahead-of-its-time Antihero Confronts Wonderfully Baroque Villains
Movie Lover: Jeremy Weinstein from
Walnut Creek, CA US -- February, 3, 2010
Alan Ladd is a mean, mean hit man eventually redeemed through his relationship with Veronica Lake. He is double-crossed by Laird Cregar, sweating evil from every pore. Cregar is a henchman for 78 year old Tully Marchall, one of the greatest of the silent movie villains, here personifying paranoid corporate evil. These two are bad enough bad guys to make the psychopathic serial killer played by Alan Ladd sympathetic. Dated and over-the-top in some respects, but quite modern in others; this is a very entertaining movie.
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- UPC: 025192550027
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