

This Gun for Hire
A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $512.4K
- Box office
- $1M
- Language
- English
- police
- hitman
- propaganda
- cat
- paranoia
- femme fatale
- film noir
- conspiracy
- black and white
- train
- hired killer
- police shootout
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)Denver, Colorado24 Apr 1942
- TheatricalNR13 May 1942
- PhysicalNRDVD6 Jul 2004
- PhysicalNRBlu-ray14 May 2019
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical(Rated A)29 May 1942
NetherlandsNL
- Physical9DVD9 Sept 2010
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This Gun for Hire was released on 24 April 1942.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
1/10/2019
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 i…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/9/2026
“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 “Brewste…
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