This Gun for Hire
Trailer: This Gun for Hire
Year: 1942
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence
Crew: Frank Tuttle (Director), Graham Greene (Novel), Albert Maltz (Screenplay), W.R. Burnett (Screenplay), Buddy G. DeSylva (Executive Producer), David Buttolph (Original Music Composer)
Runtime: 81 minutes
Release: Apr 24, 1942
IMDb: 6.90/10 by 173 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 512
Revenue: 1

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