The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

Name: The Hat Box Mystery
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Mystery
Released: 1947-06-12
Duration: 44 min
Cast: Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins, Virginia Sale, Leonard Penn

Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.

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Released 1947-06-12 · 44 min · Crime, Comedy, Mystery

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Cast

Tom Neal as Russ Ashton
Pamela Blake as Susan Hart
Allen Jenkins as 'Harvard'
Virginia Sale as Veronica Hoopler
Leonard Penn as Stevens, aka John Moreland
Olga Andre as Marie Moreland
Tom Kennedy as Policeman Murphy
Al Hill as Flint
Edward Keane as District Attorney
Zon Murray as Joe
A. Robert Nunes as Witness (As Bob Nunes)
Jack Cheatham as Policeman
Steve Clark as Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited)
William Ruhl as Blackmailer (uncredited)