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The Hat Box Mystery

The Hat Box Mystery

Lambert Hillyer

1947

  • Crime
  • Comedy
  • Mystery
4.5

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 & crew

  • Lambert HillyerDirector
  • Tom NealRuss Ashton
  • Pamela BlakeSusan Hart
  • Allen Jenkins'Harvard'
  • Virginia SaleVeronica Hoopler
  • Leonard PennStevens, aka John Moreland
  • Olga AndreMarie Moreland
  • Tom KennedyPoliceman Murphy
  • Al HillFlint

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