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Midnight Movie: This Gun for Hire

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on BBC Two England

Paramount Presents...
Tonight starring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar

Alan Ladd, Paramount's top action star of the 40s, as the tough and unemotional hired killer in this film adaptation of a Graham Greene story. As well as being the film that made Ladd a star, it was the first in his short but very successful partnership with the glamorous Veronica Lake.

Films: page 17

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From a story by:
Graham Greene
Director:
Frank Tuttle
Raven:
Alan Ladd
Ellen Graham:
Veronica Lake
Lt Michael Crane:
Robert Preston
Willard Gates:
Laird Cregar
Alvin Brewster:
Tully Marshall
Senator Burnett:
Roger Imhof
Source: Radio Times

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