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Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston , Laird Cregar, Tully Marshall
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about This Gun for Hire |
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Based on Graham Greene's "A Gun for Sale", THIS GUN FOR HIRE was directed by Frank Tuttle in 1942.
Philip Raven is a hitman hired by Willard Gates to kill a blackmailer. Gates pays Raven with marked $10 bills hoping that the killer will soon be caught. Raven manages to escape the police and takes the train to L.A. in order to take revenge on Gates. During the journey, Raven meets Ellen Graham, a singer who's been just engaged by Gates to perform in his night-club.
Ellen Graham is in fact working for the Senator Burnett who suspects Gates to be a traitor. Ellen will persuade Raven to help her prove that Alvin Brewster, the boss of the Nitro company and Gates's employer, is actually selling poison gas to the Japanese. Won over by Ellen's patriotism, Raven promises to the young woman that he'll try to obtain a written confession of Gates and Brewster before thinking about his own wish for revenge.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of This Gun for Hire |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding a spy/saboteur
- finding an assassin
The terrorist enemy is...
- billionaire/big corp
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Broadway musical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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