Directed by:
Frank TuttleCinematography:
John F. SeitzComposer:
David ButtolphCast:
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Olin Howland, Roger Imhof, Pamela Blake, Frank Ferguson, Patricia Farr (more)VOD (2)
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Alan Ladd plays Philip Raven, a double-crossed gunman who is out for revenge, with Veronica Lake as Ellen Graham, his platinum blond bombshell companion. A hired gun, Raven is kind to everyone but his targets, and when he kills an extortionist and receives stolen money in compensation, he becomes the target of a Senate investigation that leads him to set his gunsight on Ellen. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Veronica Lake
USA
Best movies:
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Robert Preston
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
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Beau Geste (1939)
Laird Cregar
USA
Best movies:
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
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Alan Ladd
USA
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
The Black Cat (1941)
Tully Marshall
USA
Best movies:
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Marc Lawrence
USA
Best movies:
Vacation with a Gangster (1954)
Marathon Man (1976)
Desire (1936)
Olin Howland
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Roger Imhof
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Man Hunt (1941)
Pamela Blake
USA
Best movies:
Stage Door (1937)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Frank Ferguson
USA
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The People Against O'Hara (1951)
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Patricia Farr
USA
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Footlight Parade (1933)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Charles C. Wilson
USA
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Bernadene Hayes
USA
Best movies:
This Gun for Hire (1942)
You and Me (1938)
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
Chester Clute
USA
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Charles Arnt
USA
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After the Thin Man (1936)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Clem Bevans
USA
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Texas (1941)
Dodge City (1939)
Charles Irwin
Ireland
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
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Yvonne De Carlo
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Roots (1977) (series)
Band of Angels (1957)
Frances Morris
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
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Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)