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The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Directed by Lambert Hillyer
“Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!”
Crime, Comedy, Mystery · 44m
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.
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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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 Nunes)
Jack Cheatham
Policeman
Crew
- Director
- Lambert Hillyer
- Screenplay
- Carl K. Hittleman
- Writer
- Don Martin
- Editor
- Arthur A. Brooks
Details
- Release date
- 1947-06-12
- Runtime
- 44m
- Genres
- Crime, Comedy, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Robert L. Lippert Productions, Screen Art Pictures Corp.