This Gun for Hire

USA 1942, 81 minutes
Dir. Frank Tuttle
Genres: Classics / Film Noir

Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Marc Lawrence

Aroview: Dynamite film noir, with Alan Ladd leaping to prominence as an unsmiling hitman embroiled in a vicious revenge quest for a traitorous confederate, reserving his nice side for small children and kittens only. However, the sultry Veronica Lake also provides ample distraction by the way and the coldly 'paranoid' tone should certainly interest fans of LE SAMOURAI. Adapted from the novel 'A Gun for Sale', by Graham Greene.