The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
"Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!"
Crime
Comedy
Mystery
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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.
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Cast
Tom Neal
Russ Ashton
Pamela Blake
Susan Hart
Allen Jenkins
'Harvard'
Virginia Sale
Veronica Hoopler
Leonard Penn
Stevens, aka John Mo...
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Olga Andre
Marie Moreland
Tom Kennedy
Policeman Murphy
Al Hill
Flint
Edward Keane
District Attorney
Zon Murray
Joe
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A. Robert Nunes
Witness (As Bob Nune...
Jack Cheatham
Policeman
Steve Clark
Telephone Re-Connect...
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William Ruhl
Blackmailer (uncredi...