This Gun for Hire (1942)





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.


Books with substantial mentioning of This Gun for Hire

Geoff Mayer and Brian McDonnell
Encyclopedia of Film Noir
Westport, Connecticut/London, 2007

Marilyn Henry and Ron DeSourdis
The Films of Alan Ladd
Secaucus, NJ, 1981

Tony Thomas
The Films of the Forties
Secaucus, NJ, 1980

James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Books with an entry on This Gun for Hire

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990