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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 24, 1942

Runtime

1h 21m

Genres

Crime, Thriller, Mystery

User Score

69%

Original Title

This Gun for Hire

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Director

Frank Tuttle

Budget

$512,423

Revenue

$1,000,000

Description

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.