LADD'S ITCHY FINGER'S ON THE TRIGGER

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	• This Gun For Hire (Universal Noir Collection) Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake Universal Studios, 2004 average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Decent but unmemorable noir

The Bottom Line:

Veronica Lake is quite fetching and she and Alan Ladd make a good couple together, but nothing in this film really grabbed me and stayed with me after my viewing: if you want an effective and brief (80 minutes) piece of cinema you'll do fine with This Gun for Hire, but it's really quite forgettable.

3/4

LADD'S ITCHY FINGER'S ON THE TRIGGER

Great title and Ladd at his best in a dark drama of love and hate, life and death.

Underrated director Frank Tuttle directs Alan Ladd and Veronica lake (and her amazing hair) in what is now considered a classic film noir.

Set in San Francisco during World War II, Philip Raven (Ladd) is a cold-blooded hired killer. He's hired to murder a chemist in possession of Nitrochemical Corporation's formula for poison gas, which he is using to blackmail the Los Angeles-based company. Raven kills Baker and his secretary after retrieving the formula, and is paid $20,000 by Willard Gates, an executive for Nitrochemical. But Gates registers the numbers on the bills with the police and claims Raven robbed Nitrochemical. The story explodes in a desperate double hunt for survival and revenge. Best seen without further knowledge of the plot. Trust me please.

They rarely make them like this anymore. Too bad.

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Don't Cross Your Hired Gunman

THIS GUN FOR HIRE(1942)---Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Laird Cregar, Robert Preston, Tully Marshall.
Ladd's first major role and his first pairing with Veronica Lake. Ladd is the "gun for hire" who is out for revenge after being double-crossed by Cregar. This film is often cited as one of the "great" film noirs---it's good, it's noir, but I don't know that I would call it "great---be that as it may, it definitely belongs in any respectable noir collection.

THIS GUN FOR HIRE

GOOD EXAMPLE OF FORTIES FILM NOIR. GOOD CHANCE TO SEE ALAN LADD AND VERONICA LAKE IN ACTION. FAIRLY GOOD STORY. RECOMMENDED FOR FOLKS WHO ENJOY EARLY FILM NOIR DETECTIVE STORIES. I GIVE IT A B-.

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Fall in love

Hey, it's not a film moir classic for nothing. And you'll fall in love with Veronica Lake all over again. Add this film to your collection.

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A marked hit man flees with a nightclub singer and stops a fifth-column poison-gas plot. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 07/06/2004 Starring: Alan Ladd Robert Preston Run time: 80 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Frank Tuttle

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