A Dangerous Profession is a 1949 American film noir directed by Ted Tetzlaff, written by Warren Duff and Martin Rackin, and starring George Raft, Ella Raines and Pat O'Brien.

A Dangerous Profession is the fourth film that George Raft made for RKO following World War II, following Johnny Angel, Nocturne and Race Street.

[7][8] In February 1949, Howard Hughes announced that Lewis Milestone would direct the film and that Raft would star alongside O'Brien and Jane Russell.

Jean Wallace, who had been hurried back from Paris to play the female lead, was fired after several days, with RKO explaining that she "is not suited to the role.

Raft, an ex-cop, now a bail bondsman, explores both sides of the law, and is grimly noble and romantic in circumstances that hardly seem worth the trouble.