This Gun for Hire
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Starring: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Director: Frank Tuttle
Writer: W. R. Burnett, Graham Greene, Albert Maltz
Producer: Richard Blumenthal
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 the United States with the same title as the film).
Trivia
- Graham Greene's novel was published in the U.S. as This Gun for Hire in 1936, and several movie studios considered obtaining rights to the book.
- Paramount bought the rights, and announced Gertrude Michael as a possible star.
- The book's plot line was kept essentially unchanged, though moved from the original European and British setting to an American one.
Previous Showings
7 Runs • 5 Festivals
6,223 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (July 19, 1942)
Original Run: July 19, 1942 (Sunday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (7):
- July 19, 1942 (Sunday - Wednesday)Veronica Lake, Robert Preston
- March 13 - 16, 1997 · 1,406 ticketsw/ The Killers, State Fair (1946)
- September 14 - 15, 2000 · 712 ticketsSummer 2000w/ Phantom Lady
- January 31 - February 2, 2003 · 2,059 ticketsFilmNoirw/ The Blue Dahlia
- April 11 - 13, 2007 · 636 ticketsFilm Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ Gun Crazy
- October 12 - 13, 2024 · 949 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ High Sierra
- July 29 - 30, 2026 · 461 ticketsSummer 2026 including the Films of Marilyn Monroew/ Don't Bother to Knock