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This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene (published in the United States with the same title as the film).
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"Guns for Hire" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from their album Flick of the Switch, released on 19 August 1983. Written by band members, Angus Young , Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson , it was also released in September as a single with "Landslide" as the B-side.
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This Gun for Hire is a 1991 American TV movie. It is an adaptation of A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene which had been filmed several times previously, notably with Alan Ladd in 1942. It was directed by Lou Antonio for the USA Network. It starred Robert Wagner who in 2000 said it was one of his favorite roles. [1]
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Session musician or "hired gun", a musician who's been hired by a studio or band to play his part on the album or record. Hired gun , an informal name for an expert witness hired by a prosecutor/litigant or defendant in a court case to testify on their behalf for whom the Daubert standard rule of evidence applies.
The novel was published and filmed in the United States under the title This Gun for Hire. The novel prefigures Greene's later, more famous work, Brighton Rock , wherein Pinkie Brown's killing of Hale sets the events of the novel in motion in much the same way that Raven's assassination of the Minister of War sows the seeds for conflict in A ...