This Gun for Hire (1942)
Country: US
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Synopsis:
A hired assassin paid off in marked bills forms an unlikely alliance with a state witness against his erstwhile employer, who is wanted for spying.
Review:
Marvellously tough and dark in parts (it is based on a Greene novel), only to revert to conventional redemption in others, this is a crime film so freighted with proto-noir significance as to render its shortcomings forgiveable.
Country: US
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Synopsis:
A hired assassin paid off in marked bills forms an unlikely alliance with a state witness against his erstwhile employer, who is wanted for spying.
Review:
Marvellously tough and dark in parts (it is based on a Greene novel), only to revert to conventional redemption in others, this is a crime film so freighted with proto-noir significance as to render its shortcomings forgiveable.
Country: US
Technical: bw 81m
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Synopsis:
A hired assassin paid off in marked bills forms an unlikely alliance with a state witness against his erstwhile employer, who is wanted for spying.
Review:
Marvellously tough and dark in parts (it is based on a Greene novel), only to revert to conventional redemption in others, this is a crime film so freighted with proto-noir significance as to render its shortcomings forgiveable.