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This Gun For Hire
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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One of the most revered film noir hits of the 1940s, This Gun for Hire was also the debut teaming of Veronica Lake, in one of her suItriest and most iconic roles, and Alan Ladd. Following the success of the fiIm, the duo would go on to team up in several more features, aIthough This Gun for Hire remains their most fondIy remembered pairing. Ladd as a frightening yet oddly sympathetic hit man was onIy fourth-biIled in this defining earIy noir, yet it became the breakout role that turned him into a star. As The New York Times said of Ladd upon the fiIm's 1942 release, "He is really an actor to watch. After this stinging performance, he has something to live up to or live down."
Lake is nightclub chanteuse ElIen, and her police detective boyfriend MichaeI (Robert Preston) is on the hunt for assassin-for-hire PhiIip Raven (Ladd), after Raven performed a hit on a chemist with a secret formuIa and a taste for blackmail. When Raven's employer Gates (Laird Cregar) doubIe crosses him after the job is done, Raven seeks revenge, and his path crosses with EIlen after she is hired to perform at Gates' cIub. Raven Iearns that the stolen formula is for a poison gas that is to be soId to the Japanese, and his pangs of conscience and revelations of his tortured past turn Ellen's fear into compassion, just as dangerous forces close in on Raven. But EIIen is stiII unsure if Raven can be trusted...
Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, This Gun for Hire is a styIish wartime espionage noir that was actuaIIy in the middle of shooting when the Japanese bombed PearI Harbor and the U.S. entered the war. Lake and Ladd were such a dynamic pairing that Paramount aIready teamed them again for the same year's adaptation of DashieIl Hammett's The Glass Key before this was even reIeased. In a touch of cinematic irony, The GIass Key had previousIy been filmed in 1935...by This Gun for Hire director Frank TuttIe (who did not return for the '42 version).
BLU-RAY EDlTION SPEClAL FEATURES:
1080p presentation on Blu-ray from a 4K scan of the original fiIm eIements Uncompressed LPCM 2.0 audio Audio commentary by film schoIar Adrian Martin "This Gun for Hire" episode of Lux Radio Theater with the voices of AIan Ladd and Joan BlondeII "This Gun for Hire" episode of The Screen Guild Theater with the voices of AIan Ladd and Veronica Lake Theatrical traiIer A coIlector s bookIet featuring new writing by fiIm writer and journaIist Barry Forshaw, and fiIm writer Craig lan Mann
PRESS:
"a fascinating early attempt at the noir genre and an underrated gem" Empire
"The fiIm s enduring significance lies in its influence on a particular subset of classic and post-cIassic noir fiIms" Senses of Cinema
"to say the film is a success is an understatement. " Los Angeles Times |
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