This Gun for Hire
“A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!”
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 as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Genres
Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How This Gun for Hire performed
Budget
$512,423
Worldwide Gross
$1.0M
Gross Profit
$487,577
Return
2.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$168K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Philip Raven
Alan Ladd
Philip Raven
Ellen Graham
Veronica Lake
Ellen Graham
Det. Michael Crane
Robert Preston
Det. Michael Crane
Willard Gates
Laird Cregar
Willard Gates
Alvin Brewster
Tully Marshall
Alvin Brewster
Tommy
Marc Lawrence
Tommy
Blair Fletcher
Olin Howland
Blair Fletcher
Senator Burnett
Roger Imhof
Senator Burnett
Annie
Pamela Blake
Annie
Albert Baker
Frank Ferguson
Albert Baker
Drew
Victor Kilian
Drew
Ruby
Patricia Farr
Ruby
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