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This Gun For Hire (1942)
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A HOLLYWOOD CLASSIC
THIS GUN FOR HIRE (TGFH) is, without question, one of Hollywood's truly classic thrillers from the glorious 40's. It's a top-rate suspense flick, no doubt about that, and, personally, one of my all-time favorite flicks from that particular era. TGFH is jam-packed with plenty of hard-boiled action and death-defying drama. It's a 'Must See' for any Film Noir fan, like myself.
TGFH would mark the first time pairing of tough guy ALAN LADD with the sultry, blonde bombshell, VERONICA LAKE. To everyone's delight the on-screen chemistry between LADD and LAKE was sizzling hot. Sparks were flying this way, and that. This good-looking duo were an instananeous hit with the movie-going audience.
This would be ALAN LADD'S first starring role as an actor. He'd been struggling to make it in Hollywood for nearly a decade. LADD's widespread appeal as the hard-edged tough guy, Raven, in TGFH would, literally, catapult him into immediate stardom. LADD's position as one of Hollywood's top male actors would endure for the next 10 years. Sadly enough, he would eventually die by his own hand from a deliberate overdose of alcohol and barbituates in the early 1960's.
ALAN LADD - Gone, but not forgotten.
Adapted from the GRAHAM GREENE novel of the same name, TGFH is a tough-edged story about love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. ALAN LADD, as Raven, plays a cold-blooded, professional killer who's been double-crossed and set-up for termination by his most recent client. It's only a matter of time before he's put out of action for good. But Raven ain't going down alone. No way. To avenge himself and the wrong done him, Raven must track down and eliminate, with extreme prejudice, those who want him out of the picture, permanently.
VERONICA LAKE as Ellen, a versatile nightclub singer and performer, gets inadvertantly caught up in the tangled web that Raven's revenge has woven. Ellen, though growing very fond of Raven, is soon put into the dangerous position of having to decide whether to turn him in to the police, or to assist him, through her many connections, in locating the ones on his hit list.
The tension mounts and before the night is over someone will be paying dearly with their life.
THIS GUN FOR HIRE is a sure-fire hit!
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