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The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

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 and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.

Length 44 minutes

Actors

Tom Neal | Pamela Blake | Allen Jenkins | Virginia Sale | Leonard Penn | Olga Andre | Tom Kennedy | Al Hill | Edward Keane | Zon Murray | A. Robert Nunes | Jack Cheatham | Steve Clark | William Ruhl