She truly was a stunning natural beauty and extremely talented and versatle. Acting, singing and magic, probably was a good dancer too. Today's Hollyweird hags can't hold a candle to Veronica's talent.

Eh. She has genetic model luck that 15 % of people always had. Very simple. She was a great actress though

@@DefCon1966 Even Veronica Lake herself admitted she was a mediocre actress.

@@DefCon1966 Well, she didn't have a very good reputation everywhere back then. Her acting was widely considered to be limited, she herself was alledgedly difficult to work with and supposedly quite simple minded (Raymond Chandler, for example, disrespectfully called her "Moronica" in his letters). Not to mention that there were the usual rumors about how she got her roles. It could all just be rumors and slander, but her career was quickly over. Apart from that, she looked simply stunning.

veronica is a real timeless beauty

Just ordered the movie tape. Looks good, looking forward to seeing it.

She was a lot of fun in I Married a Witch. So was the movie. "I love you truly. Truly!

What happened to her?

@@nathansteinfromarkham7109 Like many actors and actresses of her era, she succumb to diminishing box office returns, alcoholism and a tumultuous personal life. As a result, her career declined and she ended up doing some obscure works before dying at 50.

Me too!

Came here to say this.

Your knowledge is appreciated.

I wasn't sure what it was but I knew it was too small and smooth to be a full 1911.

@@DIEGhostfish didn't those have a bad habit of discharging at the drop of a pin? No pun intended... Or am I thinking of something else

@@matthiasthulman4058 Not that I know of.

Yes, 5'6 babyfaced cool pro killer (of innocents) that only loves cats. I miss those men. But to be clear, this is one of the best tough guy performances ever, top 3.

And small furry creatures from alpha centurai were small furry creatures from alpha centurai.

They still are, whether they know it or not.

And when your grandma was getting her cheeks pounded

40s femme fatales, the most beautiful class of women ever, sexy, stylish, classy, smart and charming are somehow more negative to the women imagine then to days vaped up, flash your shit for clicks, usless influencers and podcasters. Yeah there right have gone up but dignity and self respect has gone down

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George Pickering I've experienced that problem as well while I don't think it's malicious rather incompetence it is quite annoying.

'1911' is sort of a general term for any slide gun of a similar make, but I take your meaning.

The Rageaholic just a fun fact, M1911's are actually rather rare in movies in this time period, because .45 ACP blanks were notoriously unreliable.

Wasn't aware of that! Thanks for the trivia, sir.

Another fun fact. The Japanese military had their officers buy their own sidearms, and for officers that had to carry one for ceremonial reasons but were never expected to fight (like doctors) they carried a concealed carry type of gun with a relatively weak cartridge like the Nambu Automatic Pistol Type B (the "Baby" Nambu). Except that the 7mm spewing Nambu was not only less reliable and less powerful than the Colt Pocket Hammerless, but also 180 yen versus the 100 yen that the Pocket Hammerless cost. Which means that there were far more second-line officers armed like the hero of this film than there were armed with actual Japanese pistols. Also, this bears repeating, the Colt 1903 once cost just 100 yen. Which at today's exchange rate translates to a Pocket Hammerless costing you just $0.90. If you try searching GunBroker for the same gun you'll find them ranging in cost from $205.00 to $4,900.00 (though most fall around $1,000.00). Talk about inflation, eh?

.32ACP master race wins again.

Raven dies happy, Veronica Lake probably gets her happy marriagge . Yeah its a happy movie

SocietyReject HardToTheCore Feels like the voice he'd use to narrate a Noir Film, dare I say...

And a very famous Western actor as well.

really? I'll have to look into his filmography.

You might want to check out a little movie called "Shane".

Wait a minute, Laddy is related to Alan Ladd?

It did. To the point where it's almost an outright remake in places. Le Samouraï was a kind of French tribute to Film Noir, so that's to be expected.

The Rageaholic would you ever do a video on it?

Also check out Le Cercle Rouge; another fantastic film by Melville.

Well, yes and no. It's kind of complicated, because 'This Gun for Hire' comes a year after The Maltese Falcon. Which is quintessential Film Noir. So it's sort of in this weird mid-period, where the genre existed, but it didn't have a name and it wasn't technically part of a wider zeitgeist yet.

Ah, I see. Even so, the conventions of the genre were not quite set in stone since film noir as a genre didn't exist yet. Sure, The Maltese Falcon came out first. However, I like to think of that movie as the Ur-Example and This Gun For Hire as the Trope Maker. When the genre didn't have a name yet, they basically did whatever they wanted because there wasn't any conventions of the genre saying they couldn't do that.

In addition, while the film genre was still being solidified and codified, the crime pulp genre is was drawing on had pretty much existed in the pulps for years; so you take something that's an interesting twist on the genre from a literary perspective and turn it into the film at a time when earlier and later works were also being adapted into the coalescing film noir genre out of sequence from when they were written. As a result you have years of development and evolution in the literary sense being turned into cinema for a genre that has yet to establish purely what it was.