This Gun for Hire
1942 film by Frank Tuttle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the TV film, see This Gun for Hire (1991 film). For the 1990 album by The Toasters, see This Gun for Hire (album). For the Eric Ambler novel, see Dirty Story (novel).
This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd. It is based on the 1936 novel A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene (published in America with the same title as the film).[4]
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Directed by | Frank Tuttle |
Screenplay by | Albert Maltz W.R. Burnett |
Based on | A Gun for Sale by Graham Greene |
Produced by | Richard Blumenthal |
Starring | Veronica Lake Robert Preston Laird Cregar Alan Ladd |
Cinematography | John Seitz |
Edited by | Archie Marshek |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Color process | Black and white |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | Less than $500,000[1] or $512,423.16[2] |
Box office | $1 million (US rentals)[3] |
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