The Hat Box Mystery

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

The Hat Box Mystery — 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.

• Release date
• June 12, 1947
• Runtime
• 44 min
• Genres
• Crime, Comedy, Mystery
• Director
• Lambert Hillyer

The Hat Box Mystery — Cast

Tom Neal Russ Ashton Pamela Blake Susan Hart Allen Jenkins 'Harvard' Virginia Sale Veronica Hoopler Leonard Penn Stevens, aka John Moreland

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