Assassin for Hire is a 1951 British crime film directed by Michael McCarthy and starring Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard and Katharine Blake.

Antonio Riccardi, a young British criminal of Italian heritage, works as a professional contract killer in order to pay for his gifted younger brother's violin lessons so that he can escape from a life of poverty and crime.

[3] Rex Rienits originally wrote the story as a radio play, which aired in Australia in 1944 in a production starring Keith Eden.

[6] The television film Assassin for Hire was screened by the BBC in September 1950 with Sidney Tafler in the lead.

[7][8] In November 1950 Rienits reported that film rights to his story had been purchased by Anglo Amalgamated, run by Nat Cohen.