The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Crime
Comedy
Mystery
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.
Cast
Russ Ashton
Susan Hart
Witness (As Bob Nunes)
Policeman
Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited)
Blackmailer (uncredited)
'Harvard'
Veronica Hoopler
Stevens, aka John Moreland
Marie Moreland
Policeman Murphy
Flint
District Attorney
Joe
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