The Hat Box Mystery

Name: The Hat Box Mystery
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Mystery
Released: 1947-06-12
Duration: 44 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins, Virginia Sale, Leonard Penn

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

1947

44m

Crime Comedy Mystery

Director: Lambert Hillyer

Writers: Maury Nunes, Carl K. Hittleman

Overview

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.