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Best known as the titular gunfighter in\\xa0Shane,\\xa0Alan\\xa0Ladd\\xa0broke into stardom with his turn as a cold-blooded killer in the film noir classic\\xa0This Gun for Hire. He made four appearances on\\xa0Suspense, usually as tough, terse, hard-boiled characters. We\\u2019ll hear\\xa0Ladd\\xa0as an ex-con framed for murder in \\u201cThe Defense Rests\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on March 9, 1944) and as a man out to avenge his brother\\u2019s murder in the western drama \\u201cA Killing in Abilene\\u201d (originally aired on CBS on December 14, 1950).