The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Crime · Comedy · Mystery
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.
Cast
- Tom Neal as Russ Ashton
- Pamela Blake as Susan Hart
- Allen Jenkins as 'Harvard'
- Virginia Sale as Veronica Hoopler
- Leonard Penn as Stevens, aka John Moreland
- Olga Andre as Marie Moreland
- Tom Kennedy as Policeman Murphy
- Al Hill as Flint
- Edward Keane as District Attorney
- Zon Murray as Joe