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This Gun for Hire (1942) [NR]

Release Date:
April 24, 1942

Original Title:
This Gun for Hire

Alternate Titles:
A merénylet
Acest ucigaş tocmit
Alma Torturada
Aluga-se Esta Arma
De omgekochte dooder
De wreker
Die Narbenhand
El cuervo
I agapi tou gangster
Il fuorilegge
Inringad!
Killer zu vermieten
Pistolet do wynajecia
Pistolet do wynajęcia
Revolver til leie
Revolver til leje
Tueur à gages
Un alma atormentada
Un alma torturada
Vainottu
Зброя для найму
Оружие для найма
Оръжие за продан

Genres:
Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Production Companies:
Paramount

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
NL: 9  US: NR 

Runtime: 81

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

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Additional Writing:
Frank Tuttle

Art Direction:
Hans Dreier
Robert Usher

Assistant Director:
George Templeton

Associate Producer:
Richard Blumenthal

Boom Operator:
Buck Walters

Costume Design:
Edith Head

Director:
Frank Tuttle

Director of Photography:
John F. Seitz

Editor:
Archie Marshek

Executive Producer:
Buddy G. DeSylva

Makeup Department Head:
Wally Westmore

Novel:
Graham Greene

Orchestrator:
George Parrish
Leo Shuken
Walter Scharf

Original Music Composer:
David Buttolph

Production Design:
Lynd Ward

Publicist:
Teet Carle

Screenplay:
W.R. Burnett
Albert Maltz

Songs:
Frank Loesser
Jacques Press

Sound Recordist:
Philip Wisdom
John Cope

Special Effects:
William L. Pereira
Farciot Edouart
Gordon Jennings

Stage Director:
George King

Still Photographer:
Mal Bulloch

Stunts:
Jack Baxley

Technical Advisor:
Marian Chavez
Jimmy Grippo
Frank Herman

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