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This Gun for Hire at WIKIPEDIA. This Gun For Hire (1942) — one of the finest of the early film noirs — and the first to profile the mutual talents of Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd — is a film noir to the core. This classic film noir features a troubled protagonist, a strange mix of genres, and a mean streak that has you questioning the ...
Año: 1942. Título original: This Gun for Hire. Sinopsis: Un matón llamado Raven es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa. (FILMAFFINITY)Puedes ver El cuervo (Contratado para matar) mediante Suscripción en las plataformas: Filmin.
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
This Gun for Hire. Albert Maltz, W.R. Burnett. Novel: Graham Greene. Film noir. Drama. Thriller. Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a ...
With an intricate plot that requires careful attention, This Gun for Hire is a hugely entertaining movie and a smash-up of elements that would go on to become noir tropes. Fifteen years later, superstar James Cagney paid homage to the film by re-animating Burnett’s screenplay in his single directorial effort, Short Cut to Hell (1957).
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 ...
Sadistic killer-for-hire Raven (Alan Ladd) becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates (Laird Cregar ...
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