This gun for hire [WorldCat Entities]

"Tueur à Gages"
"Gun for Sale"
"Tueur à gages"

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"" ...[a] hard-edged story of love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's."--Container."@en
"The hard-edged story of love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. Ladd portrays a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client."@en
"A story of love and betrayal set in the underworld of the 1940's. Ladd stars as a killer who has been double crossed by his client. Preston is a cop in love with nightclub singer Lake."@en
"First released as a movie in 1942. Based on the novel "A gun for sale" by Graham Greene."
"A paid gunman seeks revenge on the man who doublecrossed him. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and Robert Preston star in this Graham Greene hard-boiled thriller."@en
"A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client who betrayed him."@en
"A professional killer is double-crossed by his client and must deal simultaneously with flight and revenge."@en
"" ... [a] hard-edged story of love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's."--Container."@en
"Payé par son commanditaire en argent volé, Philip Raven, tueur à gage, doit fuir la police lancée à ses trousses. Sur son chemin, il fait la connaissance d'Ellen...Fort de personnages mythiques immortalisés par des interprètes de légende, ce film grave dès les premiers instants son empreinte dans le marbre de l'histoire du film noir. L'atmosphère ténébreuse et un scénario tiré de l'oeuvre de Graham Greene ajoutent encore à sa réussite."
"This film noir is a hard-edged story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940s. Ladd portrays a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client."
"A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him."
"Film Noir, the dark, suspenseful style of filmmaking from the '40s and '50s, has left an indelible imprint on the world of cinema. They have come to define a genre laces with murder, jealousy, intrigue, corruption, forbidden romance and double-crosses. The collection showcases a selection of defining movies including Double Indemnity; Touch of Evil; This Gun for Hire; Criss Cross; The Killers; The Glass Key; Phantom Lady; The Blue Dahlia; Black Angel; The Big Clock."@en
"This is the story of the hard-edged story of love, power, and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's."@en
""Payé par son commanditaire en argent volé, Philip Raven, tueur à gages, doit fuir la police lancée à ses trousses. Sur son chemin, il fait la connaissance d'Ellen..."--[allociné.fr]."
"Hit man Philip Raven, who's kind to children and cats, kills a blackmailer and is paid off by traitor Willard Gates in "hot" money. Meanwhile, pert entertainer Ellen Graham, girlfriend of police Lieut. Crane (who's after Raven) is enlisted by a Senate committee to help investigate Gates. Raven, seeking Gates for revenge, meets Ellen on the train; their relationship gradually evolves from that of killer and potential victim to an uneasy alliance against a common enemy."
""In San Francisco, during World War II, Philip Raven, a cold-blooded hired killer, awakens fully dressed from his late morning sleep to carry out a job. He is to murder Albert Baker, a chemist in possession of Nitrochemical Corporation's formula for poison gas, which he is using to blackmail the Los Angeles-based company. Raven mercilessly kills Baker and his secretary after retrieving the formula, and is paid $20,000 in ten-dollar bills by Willard Gates, an executive for Nitrochemical and an independent nightclub owner. Gates immediately registers the numbers on the bills with the police and claims that Raven stole the $20,000 from Nitrochemical's paymaster. Vacationing Los Angeles police lieutenant Michael Crane is assigned to the case. Coincidentally, Gates hires Michael's fiancée, Ellen Graham, who performs a singing magic act, to work at his Neptune Club in Los Angeles. Both men are unaware that Ellen is working undercover for Senator Burnett to determine Gates's involvement in the sale of the poison gas plans to the enemy. Raven outwits Michael and the police at his boardinghouse and, realizing that Gates has double-crossed him, follows him onto the train to Los Angeles. Ellen is forced to postpone her wedding plans because of her commitment to Burnett, and unwittingly shares her seat on the train to Los Angeles with Raven. When she notices that he has stolen five dollars from her purse, she demands the return of the money, but graciously refrains from turning him in. In the morning, Gates sees Raven and Ellen asleep on the same seat and suspects that they are in collusion with each other. He alerts the Los Angeles police, who then search the disembarking passengers, looking for a man with a distended wrist, Raven's most distinguishing feature. Raven takes Ellen hostage and eludes the police. Later he plans to shoot her in a condemned building, but is interrupted by a demolition crew, and Ellen escapes. Alvin Brewster, the elderly and powerful owner of Nitrochemical, reprimands Gates for losing Raven and insists that he determine Ellen's connection to the killer. Gates invites Ellen to his Hollywood mansion for dinner that night, and when she innocently lies about her seat partner on the train, he orders his chauffeur, Tommy, to get rid of her. Tommy knocks Ellen out and ties her up, intending to dump her in the river later as a mock suicide. Michael, meanwhile, returns to Los Angeles and, on a tip from a chorus girl, goes to Gates's house looking for Ellen. As Ellen is hidden in a closet, Michael leaves without her, but Raven, who has tracked Gates, knocks Tommy down a flight of stairs and rescues Ellen. Promising she will not be harmed, Raven takes her to the Neptune Club, but is unable to exact his revenge on Gates because Michael is there. Raven then escapes with Ellen, who surreptitiously leaves a trail of her monogrammed playing cards for Michael to follow. The fugitives hide in a shack in the railroad yards surrounded by the police, and form a bond when they each discover how Gates has betrayed them. When a cat comes into the shack, the hardened killer fondles the animal, but is forced to kill it when it nearly gives away their location. Raven reveals to Ellen the abuse he endured as an orphan child, which warped his wrist and led him into a life of crime. Touched, she urges him not to kill Gates, but to help his country by getting a signed confession of Gates's disloyalty. Raven initially resists her suggestion, but, having learned to trust her, agrees to the plan the next morning when she helps him escape. After Raven kills a police officer during his escape, Michael urges a reticent Ellen to reveal her involvement. Although Ellen refuses to speak, Michael correctly guesses that Raven is headed for the Nitrochemical Corp. building. Raven infiltrates the building and holds Brewster, a fifth columnist, and a sniveling Gates hostage, and insists that the traitors sign a written confession. Brewster's heart fails and he dies, and Raven kills Gates before being shot by Michael, who has entered the secured room from a painter's scaffolding. Raven resists killing Michael out of friendship for Ellen and is gunned down by the police. With his last breath, Raven seeks Ellen's assurance that she did not turn him in to the police, and, after receiving her absolution, he dies"--AFI catalog, 1941-1950."