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The Hat Box Mystery

The Hat Box Mystery1947

★4.544 minCrimeComedyMystery

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.

Director

Lambert Hillyer

Writer

Don Martin Carl K. Hittleman Maury Nunes

Stars

Tom Neal Pamela Blake Allen Jenkins

Cast14

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
O
Olga Andre
as Marie Moreland
Tom Kennedy
as Policeman Murphy
Al Hill
as Flint
Edward Keane
as District Attorney
Zon Murray
as Joe
A
A. Robert Nunes
as Witness (As Bob Nunes)
Jack Cheatham
as Policeman
Steve Clark
as Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited)
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William Ruhl
as Blackmailer (uncredited)

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