The Hat Box Mystery
Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!
1947 | 44m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Lambert Hillyer |
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| Writer: | Carl K. Hittleman, Don Martin, Maury Nunes |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 12, 1947 |
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| Director: | Lambert Hillyer |
| Writer: | Carl K. Hittleman, Don Martin, Maury Nunes |
| Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Mystery |
| Keywords | private detective |
| Production Companies | Screen Art Pictures Corp., Robert L. Lippert Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: May 01, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Tom Neal | Russ Ashton |
| Pamela Blake | Susan Hart |
| Allen Jenkins | 'Harvard' |
| Virginia Sale | Veronica Hoopler |
| Leonard Penn | Stevens, aka John Moreland |
| Olga Andre | Marie Moreland |
| Tom Kennedy | Policeman Murphy |
| Al Hill | Flint |
| Edward Keane | District Attorney |
| Zon Murray | Joe |
| A. Robert Nunes | Witness (As Bob Nunes) |
| Jack Cheatham | Policeman |
| Steve Clark | Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited) |
| William Ruhl | Blackmailer (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Lambert Hillyer | Director |
| Carl K. Hittleman | Story, Screenplay |
| Don Martin | Writer |
| Maury Nunes | Story |
| Arthur A. Brooks | Editor |
| James S. Brown Jr. | Cinematography |
| William Glasgow | Production Design |
| Robert Cowan | Makeup & Hair |
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Pamela Blake is "Susan", the assistant to PI Tom Neal ("Russ") whose business has rather hit the skids. Whilst he is away, she takes on a case trying to prove infidelity and using a hat box that, ostensibly, conceals a harmless camera she follows her target. Unfortunately, her snaps have a fatal con ... sequence and she is charged with murder. It falls to "Russ" and his hapless helper "Harvard" (Allen Jenkins) to get to the bottom of it before "Susan" is toast. It's all just a routine B-drama with little jeopardy or menace, but it does have quite a few quite engaging scenes between "Harvard" and waitress "Veronica" (Virginia Sale) who offers him her body but he'd rather have a goose-burger.... It's short and sweet, and though pretty unremarkable, it does pass 45 minutes easily enough.