This Gun for Hire
A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
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.
- Budget
- $512,423
- Revenue
- $1,000,000
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
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Cast
Alan Ladd
Philip Raven
Veronica Lake
Ellen Graham
Robert Preston
Det. Michael Crane
Laird Cregar
Willard Gates
Tully Marshall
Alvin Brewster
Marc Lawrence
Tommy
Olin Howland
Blair Fletcher
Roger Imhof
Senator Burnett
Pamela Blake
Annie
Frank Ferguson
Albert Baker
Victor Kilian
Drew
Patricia Farr
Ruby
Harry Shannon
Steve Finnerty
Charles C. Wilson
Police Captain
Mikhail Rasumny
Slukey
Bernadene Hayes
Albert Baker's Secretary
Mary Davenport
Salesgirl
Chester Clute
Rooming House Manager
Charles Arnt
Male Dressmaker
Earle S. Dewey
Mr. Collins
Crew
- Director
- Frank Tuttle
- Writers
- Albert Maltz,W.R. Burnett
- Producers
- Buddy G. DeSylva
- Cinematography
- John F. Seitz
- Composer
- David Buttolph
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John Chard
January 10, 2019
I like Cats! So says the icy cold broken wrist killer! Phillip Raven is a hit man of no obvious moral fibre, he literally will kill anyone for the right price. After fulfilling a contract for the chocolate munching Willard Gates, he finds himself pursued by the law on account that he was paid by Gates with stolen money. Raven sets out for the ultimate revenge and dovetailing towards the explosive finale with him is sultry conjurer Ellen Graham and honest cop Michael Crane. Based on the Gra…
CinemaSerf
February 9, 2026
“Raven” (Alan Ladd) is a meticulously capable contract killer whom we meet bumping off not just a blackmailer, but an innocent girl who just happened to be with him at the time. His boss, “Gates” (Laird Cregar) rather foolishly pays him off with dodgy cash and that earns him the enmity of his former employee. Meantime, the authorities are suspicious of “Gates" and his own wheel-chair bound industrialist boss “Brewster” (Tully Marshall) and so they ask chanteuse "Ellen” (Veronica Lake) - who just…