This Gun for Hire
Overview
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Where to Watch
Keywords
Trailer
Images
Reviews(2)
John Chard
January 10, 2019
I like Cats! So says the icy cold broken wrist killer! Phillip Raven is a hit man of no obvious moral fibre, he literally will kill anyone for the right price. After fulfilling a contract for the chocolate munching Willard Gates, he finds himself pursued by the law on account that he was paid by …
CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967February 9, 2026
“Raven” (Alan Ladd) is a meticulously capable contract killer whom we meet bumping off not just a blackmailer, but an innocent girl who just happened to be with him at the time. His boss, “Gates” (Laird Cregar) rather foolishly pays him off with dodgy cash and that earns him the enmity of his former…
Download Subtitles
Looking for subtitles in another language? Browse all subtitles in 50+ languages →
Recommended Movies
The Narrow Margin
03 May 1952
The Glass Key
08 Sept 1942
Witness to Murder
15 Apr 1954
The Mirror Crack'd
06 Feb 1980
Perfect Sisters
08 Apr 2014
The Blue Gardenia
20 Mar 1953
Pushover
14 Jul 1954
Union Station
04 Oct 1950
The Leopard Man
08 May 1943
Lady in the Lake
19 Dec 1946
Framed
25 May 1947
D.O.A.
23 Dec 1949
The Batman
01 Mar 2022
Song of the Thin Man
28 Aug 1947
The Outfit
25 Feb 2022
The Web
04 Jun 1947
Foreign Correspondent
16 Aug 1940
Overdrive
16 Jun 2017
Phantom Lady
28 Jan 1944
Agatha and the Midnight Murders
07 Oct 2020