This Gun for Hire
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Alan Ladd in publicity still for This Gun for Hire (1942, dir. Frank Tuttle)
“Murder didn’t mean much to Philip Raven. It was just a new job. You had to be careful. You had to use your brains. It was not a question of hatred.”
-Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale
This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942)
French film poster for This Gun for Hire designed by Boris Grinsson
Veronica Lake in This Gun For Hire
This Gun For Hire is also a potent piece of wartime propaganda. The plot hinges on the selling of a secret chemical formula to the Japanese by an American turncoat. In this scene, the employees of a major company wear masks for a gas drill.
