The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

The Hat Box Mystery

1947

Crime Comedy Mystery

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Lambert Hillyer

Cast

Al Hill as Flint

Allen Jenkins as 'Harvard'

Edward Keane as District Attorney

Leonard Penn as Stevens, aka John Moreland

Olga Andre as Marie Moreland

Pamela Blake as Susan Hart

Tom Kennedy as Policeman Murphy

Tom Neal as Russ Ashton