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#11,193 All-time worldwide
#27 1942 releases

Movie profile

This Gun for Hire

1942 · 81 min · Paramount Pictures

Crime Thriller Mystery
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $1.0M
Budget $512,423
Gross minus budget $487,577
ROI 1.95x

Domestic gross

$400,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$600,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$112,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where This Gun for Hire ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,193 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1942 releases #27 Release-year chart position of 32 titles Ranked against movies released in 1942. Studio / company #404 Paramount Pictures of 424 titles Position inside the mapped Paramount Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,719 Crime of 1,921 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,190 Ruby in Paradise 1993 · $1.0M #11,191 Zindagi Jhand Hai 2020 · $1.0M #11,192 Meeting Venus 1991 · $1.0M #11,238 The Warrior 2001 · $996,179 #11,239 On the Rocks 2020 · $992,103 #11,240 Campus Man 1987 · $989,528

Quick answer

How did This Gun for Hire (1942) perform at the box office?

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This Gun for Hire (1942) earned a reported $1.0M worldwide against a reported $512.4K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $487.6K. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.95x. In this database it currently ranks #11,193 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #27 among 1942 releases.

Worldwide gross
$1,000,000
Budget
$512,423
Gross minus budget
$487,577
ROI
1.95x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Apr 24, 1942
Production
Paramount Pictures
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyParamount Pictures Release year chart1942 box office Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller Genre chartMystery

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1942, This Gun for Hire is positioned in this dataset as a Crime, Thriller, Mystery title from Paramount Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $1.0M, reported production budget is $512,423, gross-minus-budget is $487,577, ROI is 1.95x. For comparison, it currently sits #11,193 all-time in the current chart set and #27 among 1942 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.