The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
44m
Running Time
June 12, 1947Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Tom Neal
Russ Ashton
Pamela Blake
Susan Hart
Allen Jenkins
'Harvard'
Leonard Penn
Stevens, aka John Moreland
Virginia Sale
Veronica Hoopler
Olga Andre
Marie Moreland
Lambert Hillyer
Director
Carl K. Hittleman
Writer
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Details.
Wiki.
The Hat Box Mystery is a 1947 mystery film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Tom Neal, Pamela Blake and Allen Jenkins. It was produced as a featurette for release by Robert L. Lippert's Screen Guild Productions. It was shot at the General Service Studios in Hollywood. The film's sets were designed by the art director William Glasgow.