Veronica Lake is a little too cool in this. A hit man is ready to shoot her but is interrupted and she escapes. Later he rescues her from the villain's mansion and she becomes his pal when he forces her to accompany him while he eludes police and at the same time seeks revenge on the villain who set him up to be caught after carrying out a typical cold blooded killing. When the hit man (Alan Ladd) tells her a sob story about his abusive childhood she becomes even more sympathetic toward him. Later, after she helps him allude a police dragnet, she learns that he killed a cop while escaping. Her comment: "He promised me he wouldn't do that any more" (?!) Observation: Alan Ladd never looked so short as when he is shown disguised in a guard's uniform wearing a gas mask ( he was 5' 5").
Review of This Gun for Hire
