The Hat Box Mystery

June. 12,1947      
Rating:
5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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
Tom Kennedy as  Policeman Murphy

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