The Hat Box Mystery

Jun 12, 1947

0h 44m

★ 3.6

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Crime

Comedy

Mystery

Production Companies

Robert L. Lippert Productions

Screen Art Pictures Corp.

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Cast

Russ Ashton

Tom Neal

Susan Hart

Pamela Blake

'Harvard'

Allen Jenkins

Veronica Hoopler

Virginia Sale

Stevens, aka John Moreland

Leonard Penn

Marie Moreland

Olga Andre

Policeman Murphy

Tom Kennedy

Flint

Al Hill

District Attorney

Edward Keane

Joe

Zon Murray

Witness (As Bob Nunes)

A. Robert Nunes

Policeman

Jack Cheatham

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