The Hat Box Mystery

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

Tom Neal

Russ Ashton

Pamela Blake

Pamela Blake

Susan Hart

Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins

'Harvard'

Virginia Sale

Virginia Sale

Veronica Hoopler

Leonard Penn

Leonard Penn

Stevens, aka John Moreland

Olga Andre

Olga Andre

Marie Moreland

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy

Policeman Murphy

Al Hill

Al Hill

Flint

Edward Keane

Edward Keane

District Attorney

Zon Murray

Zon Murray

Joe

A. Robert Nunes

A. Robert Nunes

Witness (As Bob Nunes)

Jack Cheatham

Jack Cheatham

Policeman

Steve Clark

Steve Clark

Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited)

William Ruhl

William Ruhl

Blackmailer (uncredited)

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