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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).
Gunfighter Wayne helps Thornton, who has been erroneously accused of killing a card shark. While doing so, Wayne encounters a gang led by his foster father (Carlyle), who is working with a cattle rancher and the sheriff to take control of the sheep ranch owned by Thornton and his father.
Paramount had owned the film rights to A Gun for Sale, a novel by Graham Greene, since 1936 but waited until 1941 before making a movie out of it, changing the title to This Gun for Hire. Director Frank Tuttle was struggling to find a new actor to play the role of Raven, a hit man with a conscience. [ 15 ]
Rock 'n' Roll Guns for Hire: The Story of the Sidemen is a 2017 British documentary directed by Francis Whately, and produced by Sarah Kerr and Whately. The film stars various sidemen such as; Earl Slick, Bernard Fowler, Catherine Russell and Wendy & Lisa.
Cast notes: This was the second of four films teaming Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, the others being: This Gun for Hire (1942); The Blue Dahlia (1946); and Saigon (1948). The two also appeared as themselves in the all-star films Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), Duffy's Tavern (1945), and Variety Girl (1947), but did not share any scenes together.
In the years since Top Gun took our breath away, a lot has changed.
Tom Cruise. Step aside, Ethan Hunt. Maverick's ready to fly again. Puck reports tonight that Top Gun 3 is a go with Tom Cruise reprising his starring role as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.. What ...
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]