The Film Theorists Posted: April 16, 2025 | Last updated: April 16, 2025 Hitman: Agent 47 is the new movie adaptation of the stealth-and-cover video game...and you all know how much I love movies ...

Prior to the 1940s, the hitman on film was generally “a thug, a side character, an oaf,” says film critic Christina Newland. “Then we see Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire.” In the 1942 movie ...