This Gun for Hire 1990

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This Gun for Hire ★★ 1990 (R)

A professional assassin finds that he has been duped into killing a powerful political figure, whom he was told was a New Orleans mobster. Now on the run, he takes a nightclub performer hostage, unaware that she is the fiance of the FBI agent who is after him. All odds are against him, but the special relationship he forms with the woman may just be his ticket out. Adapted from novel by Graham Greene. 89m/C VHS . Robert Wagner, Nancy Everhard, Frederic Lehne, John Harkins; D: Lou Antonio.