Alan Ladd

As the private eyes of private eyes, Steve Martin is Rigby Reardon. He's tough, rough and ready to take on anything when Juliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) appears on the scene with a case: her father, a noted scientist, philanthropist and cheesemaker, haS died mysteriously. Reardon immediately smells a rat and follows a complex maze of clues that lead him to the "Carlotta Lists".

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake star in This Gun for Hire, a hard-edged story of love, power and betrayal set in the seamy underworld of the 1940's. Raven (Ladd) is a cold-blooded professional killer who's been double-crossed by his client Willard Gates (Laird Cregar), owner of Nitro Chemical and a suspected traitor by the U.S. government. Ellen (Lake), a beautiful nightclub singer and working undercover is hired by Gates to sing at his club. A twist of events leads Raven and Ellen to join forces and before the case is wrapped up, someone will pay with his life.

Believing herself to be bookish and plain, college student Linda nonetheless sets out to attend the school dance and find romance.

Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime.

A simple barmaid named Joan (Michele Morgan) sacrifices her own safety to help five fugitive British airmen escape from France.

After taking the rap and serving time for her boyfriend's hit-and-run, a young woman rises to the top of a crime syndicate run by city officials.