This Gun for Hire (1942)

A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!

• Crime
• Thriller
• Mystery

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.

Rating

7 / 10 (201 votes)

Release date

April 24, 1942

Runtime

1h 21m

Language

English

Director

Frank Tuttle

Status

Released