
The Hat Box Mystery
Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!
1947 en 44 minutes
Rating: 4.2
Plot
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 and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
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Cast

Tom Neal
Russ Ashton

Pamela Blake
Susan Hart

Allen Jenkins
'Harvard'

Virginia Sale
Veronica Hoopler

Leonard Penn
Stevens, aka John Moreland

Olga Andre
Marie Moreland

Tom Kennedy
Policeman Murphy

Al Hill
Flint

Edward Keane
District Attorney

Zon Murray
Joe

A. Robert Nunes
Witness (As Bob Nunes)

Jack Cheatham
Policeman

Steve Clark
Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited)

William Ruhl
Blackmailer (uncredited)