senses of cinema - "This Gun For Hire has been described as 'one of the most important early films noir', and one that 'helps to establish a number of conventions of the genre'. The film's enduring significance lies in its influence on a particular subset of classic and post-classic noir films featuring the figure of the lone assassin. Directed by Frank Tuttle, himself something of a Paramount Studios gun for hire, the film's exploration of the last days of a solitary, embittered hitman reverberates through everything from Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (France, 1968) to more recent meditations on the form - Luc Besson's The Professional (USA, 1994) and Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog (USA, 1999)."
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