This Gun for Hire (1942)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Ellen Graham

      Veronica Lake

    • Lt Michael Crane

      Robert Preston

    • Willard Gates

      Laird Cregar

    • Philip Raven

      Alan Ladd

    • Alvin Brewster

      Tully Marshall

    • Tommy

      Marc Lawrence

    • Blair Fletcher

      Howlin, Olin

    • Senator Burnett

      Roger Imhof

    • Annie

      Pamela Blake

    • Albert Baker

      Frank Ferguson

    • Drew, Brewster's secretary

      Victor Kilian

    • Ruby

      Patricia Farr

    • Steve Finnerty

      Harry Shannon

    • police captain

      Wilson, Charles C.

    • Slukey

      Mikhail Rasumny

    • Baker's secretary

      Hayes, Bernadene

    • salesgirl

      Mary Davenport

    • Stewart, rooming house manager

      Chester Clute

    • Will Gates, male dressmaker

      Charles Arnt

    • Mr Collins

      Dewey, Earle

    • scissors grinder

      Clem Bevans

    • Gates' secretary

      Lynda Grey

    • crippled little girl

      Virita Campbell

    • [night watchman]

      James Farley

    • [Charlie, the cop with Michael]

      Emmett Vogan

    • [dancer at 'Neptune']

      Yvonne De Carlo

    • [Lieutenant Clark]

      Dick Rush

    • [restaurant manager]

      Harry Hayden

    • [Weems, the guard]

      Tim Ryan

    • [police captain]

      Edwin Stanley

    • [Officer Glennon]

      Elliott Sullivan

    • [Mrs Mason]

      Sarah Padden

    • [piano player]

      Don Barclay

    • [young man]

      Richard Webb

    • [Keever]

      John Sheehan

    • [Frog]

      Alan Speer

    • [waiter]

      Cyril Ring

    • [Walt]

      Fred Walburn

    • [Jimmie]

      Robert Winkler

    • [plainclothesman]

      George Anderson

    • [innocent dupe]

      Jack Baxley

    • [foreman]

      Eddy Chandler

    • [woman on bridge]

      Betty Farrington

    • [detective]

      Charles McMurphy

    • [machinist]

      Phil Tead

    • [dining car waiter]

      Charles Moore

    • [porter]

      Ernest E. Baskett

    • [conductor]

      Pat O'Malley

    • [gateman]

      Lee Prather

    • [waitress]

      Katharine Booth

    • [janitor]

      Pat West

    • [superintendent]

      W. Harry Brown

    • [superintendent]

      Gordon Demain

    • [superintendent]

      John Marston

    • [dancer]

      Louise La Planche

    • [man with monkey]

      Julian Rivero

    • [receptionist]

      Frances Morris

    • [young girl in reception room]

      Pat Mace

    • [doorman]

      Ivan Miller

    • [big man]

      Arthur Loft

    • [policeman]

      Jack Cheatham

    • [maid]

      Virginia Farmer

    • [old Irishman]

      Charles Irwin

    • [worker]

      Kenneth Christy

    • [worker]

      Reed Porter

    • [girl in car]

      Lora Lee

    • [saleslady's mother]

      June Evans

    • [laundry truck driver]

      William Cabanne

    • [Raven as a boy - cut from final print]

      Dickie Jones

    • [Raven's aunt, dream sequence - cut]

      Hermine Sterler

    • [.]

      Gloria Williams

    • [singing voice double for Veronica Lake]

      Martha Mears

• Credits

  • Unknown:

    • Director

      Frank Tuttle

    • Production Company

      Paramount Pictures

    • [Executive Producer]

      B.G. De Sylva

    • Associate Producer

      Richard Blumenthal

    • [Assistant Director]

      George Templeton

    • Screenplay

      Albert Maltz

    • Screenplay

      W.R. Burnett

    • Based on the novel 'A Gun for Sale' by

      Graham Greene

    • Director of Photography

      Seitz, John

    • [Stills]

      Malcolm Bulloch

    • Special Photographic Effects

      Pereira, William

    • Special Photographic Effects

      Gordon Jennings

    • Special Photographic Effects

      Farciot Edouart

    • Editor

      Archie Marshek

    • Art Director

      Hans Dreier

    • Art Director

      Robert Usher

    • Miss Lake's Gowns

      Edith Head

    • Director of Make-up

      Wally Westmore

    • Musical Score

      David Buttolph

    • [Assistant Dance Director]

      George King

    • Sound Recording

      Wisdom, Phillip

    • Sound Recording

      John Cope

    • [Camera Boom Operator]

      Buck Walters

    • [Technical Adviser for Magic Tricks]

      Jimmy Grippo

    • [Technical Adviser for Magic Tricks]

      Marian Chavez

    • [Technical Adviser for Magic Tricks]

      Frank Herman

    • [Publicity]

      Teet Carle