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The Hat Box Mystery

4.2 44 mins Crime   Comedy   Mystery   1947
Robert L. Lippert Productions   Screen Art Pictures Corp.  
Director(s): Lambert Hillyer

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.

Casts of The Hat Box Mystery

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)

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