A Lone Wolf…dynamite with a girl or a gun!
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Alan LaddPhilip Raven
- Veronica LakeEllen Graham
- Robert PrestonDet. Michael Crane
- Laird CregarWillard Gates
- Tully MarshallAlvin Brewster
- Marc LawrenceTommy
- Olin HowlandBlair Fletcher
- Roger ImhofSenator Burnett
- Pamela BlakeAnnie
- Frank FergusonAlbert Baker
Crew
- Frank TuttleDirector
- W.R. BurnettScreenplay
- Albert MaltzScreenplay
- Graham GreeneNovel
- John F. SeitzDirector of Photography
- David ButtolphOriginal Music Composer
- Archie MarshekEditor
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