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voisjoe1
Sep 20, 2013voisjoe1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
“This Gun for Hire” was the first big role for Alan Ladd and this film is based upon a novel by the great Graham Greene. His very next film was “The Glass Key,” written by the great detective novelist, Dashiell Hammett. What made him different from most other criminals and detectives of this period is that he rarely smiled. He even played Mr. Cool in his much later great role as Shane. For me, “This Gun for Hire” is surely in the top twenty of American black and white crime films.