Alan Ladd worked in the film industry.
Alan Ladd . Other notable credits include Two Years Before the Mast ( 1946 ) , Whispering Smith ( 1949 ) and The Great Gatsby ( 1949 ) . This Gun for Hire is a 1942 film noir , directed by Frank Tuttle and based on the 1936 novel ( published in America with the same title , and in Britain with the title A Gun for Sale ) by Graham Greene .