This Gun for Hire

1942 film by Frank Tuttle

Movie film Q1215110

Facts

25 properties

Instance of: film
Director: Frank Tuttle^[1]
Genre: film noir, crime film, drama film^[6]^[7]^[8]
Publication date: 1942^[32]
Screenwriter: W. R. Burnett, Graham Greene, Albert Maltz^[2]^[3]^[4]
Producer: Richard Blumenthal^[23]
Duration: +80^[39]
Cast member: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Marc Lawrence, Tully Marshall, Frank Ferguson, list of American supercentenarians, Yvonne De Carlo, Mikhail Rasumny, Olin Howland, Roger Imhof, Sarah Padden, Victor Kilian, Patricia Farr, Charles C. Wilson, Clem Bevans, Charles Irwin, Frances Morris, Richard Webb, Harry Hayden, Emmett Vogan, George Magrill, Cyril Ring, Jack Cheatham, Harry Shannon, Eddy Chandler^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]
Color: black-and-white^[30]
Composer: David Buttolph^[5]
Country of origin: United States^[31]
Director of photography: John F. Seitz^[25]
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, Netflix^[33]^[34]
Distribution format: video on demand^[27]
FSK film rating: FSK 16^[38]
Film editor: Archie Marshek^[36]
Narrative location: Los Angeles^[35]
Original language of film or TV show: English^[26]
P14449: 8765
P14551: this-gun-for-hire
P14724: 8323377
P14821: 35432
Production company: Paramount Pictures^[24]
Review score: 7.5/10, 94%^[28]^[29]

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Title: This Gun for Hire^[37]

🏷️ Also known as

en This Gun for Hire de Die Narbenhand de This Gun for Hire el Η αγάπη του γκάνγκστερ es El cuervo es Contratado para matar es Un alma atormentada es Un alma torturada fr This Gun for Hire fr Tueur à gages hu A merénylet (film, 1942) hu A merénylet it Fuorilegge it Il fuorilegge it This Gun for Hire ja 拳銃貸します ko 백주의 탈출 nl De wreker ru Оружие для найма ru Оружие для найма (фильм)

🔖 Identifiers · 57

Image (Wikimedia Commons): This Gun for Hire (1942) poster.jpg ↗
AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID: 27508
AllMovie title ID: v49518
Allcinema film ID: 7218
AlloCiné film ID: 1313
Apple TV movie ID: umc.cmc.2e07v9kx87wqk5e42c6sm621g
Cine.gr film ID (archived): 716732
Cinema Context ID: F019434
Cinema.de ID: 91119
Ciné-Ressources film ID: 37083
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID: 5249
DNF film ID: 50022

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Decine21 film ID: 9103
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID: 20672, 34196
Douban film ID: 1302943
Dvdcompare.net film ID: 8776, 52164
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/3EEA-26A6-E11D-5EFD-C81D-G
ElFilm film ID: 35361
Elonet movie ID: 186354
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/This-Gun-for-Hire-film-by-Tuttle
FandangoNow ID (deprecated scheme): MMV387D2EBACDF4FC421D1C04D0319E73EE1
Fernsehserien.de ID: filme/die-narbenhand
FilmAffinity film ID: 124601
FilmVandaag ID: film/14109
Filmová databáze film ID: 32318
Filmweb.pl film ID: 130749
Freebase ID: /m/05g8_f
IMDb ID: tt0035432
ISAN: 0000-0001-3519-0000-V-0000-0000-I
ITunes movie ID: 1148229535
Internet Archive ID: this-gun-for-hire-1942, 1942thisgunforhirecontratadoparamatarfranktuttle, this-gun-for-hire-colorized
KINENOTE film ID: 71425
Kinobox film ID: 181782
Kinopoisk film ID: 8623
LUMIERE film ID: 14284
LdiF ID: 32876
Letterboxd film ID: this-gun-for-hire
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 9915
Movie Review Query Engine ID: this-gun-for-hire-m100050442
MovieMeter film ID: 5551
Moviepilot.de film ID: narbenhand
Netflix ID: 70000544
OFDb film ID: 11151
OMDb film ID: 42551
PORT film ID: 148209
Plex media key: 5d77683f6f4521001ea9ddae
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/1021269-this_gun_for_hire
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 16683
Scope.dk film ID: 4958
Swedish Film Database ID: 31767
TCM Movie Database film ID: 36540
TMDB movie ID: 16703
TV Spielfilm film ID: 91119
TheTVDB movie ID: 16500
Trakt.tv ID: movies/this-gun-for-hire-1942
Trakt.tv film ID: 10255
ČSFD film ID: 24946

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🔗 Connections

Cast member 25

Veronica Lake, Yvonne De Carlo, Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Marc Lawrence, Tully Marshall, Laird Cregar, Richard Webb +17 more

Genre 3

drama film, film noir, crime film

Screenwriter 3

Graham Greene, Albert Maltz, W. R. Burnett

Distributed by 2

Netflix, Paramount Pictures

Color 1

black-and-white

Composer 1

David Buttolph

Country of origin 1

United States

Director 1

Frank Tuttle

Director of photography 1

John F. Seitz

Distribution format 1

video on demand

Film editor 1

Archie Marshek

Instance of 1

film

Narrative location 1

Los Angeles

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Producer 1

Richard Blumenthal

Production company 1

Paramount Pictures

← Samples from work 1

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

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Direct Wikidata claims

[1] ↑ This Gun for Hire — director (P57): Frank Tuttle. imdb.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08. imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ This Gun for Hire — screenwriter (P58): W. R. Burnett. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ This Gun for Hire — screenwriter (P58): Graham Greene. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ This Gun for Hire — screenwriter (P58): Albert Maltz. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ This Gun for Hire — composer (P86): David Buttolph. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ This Gun for Hire — genre (P136): film noir. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ This Gun for Hire — genre (P136): crime film. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ This Gun for Hire — genre (P136): drama film. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Veronica Lake. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Robert Preston. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Laird Cregar. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Alan Ladd. filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08. filmaffinity.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Marc Lawrence. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Tully Marshall. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Frank Ferguson. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): list of American supercentenarians. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Yvonne De Carlo. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Mikhail Rasumny. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Olin Howland. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Roger Imhof. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Sarah Padden. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ This Gun for Hire — cast member (P161): Victor Kilian. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ This Gun for Hire — producer (P162): Richard Blumenthal. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ This Gun for Hire — production company (P272): Paramount Pictures. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ This Gun for Hire — director of photography (P344): John F. Seitz. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ This Gun for Hire — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ This Gun for Hire — distribution format (P437): video on demand. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ This Gun for Hire — review score (P444): 7.5/10. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2021-10-06. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ This Gun for Hire — review score (P444): 94%. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ This Gun for Hire — color (P462): black-and-white. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ This Gun for Hire — country of origin (P495): United States. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ This Gun for Hire — publication date (P577): 1942. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ This Gun for Hire — distributed by (P750): Paramount Pictures. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ This Gun for Hire — distributed by (P750): Netflix. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ This Gun for Hire — narrative location (P840): Los Angeles. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ This Gun for Hire — film editor (P1040): Archie Marshek. wikidata.org.
[37] ↑ This Gun for Hire — title (P1476): This Gun for Hire. wikidata.org.
[38] ↑ This Gun for Hire — FSK film rating (P1981): FSK 16. wikidata.org.
[39] ↑ This Gun for Hire — duration (P2047): 80 minutes. wikidata.org.

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