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The Hat Box Mystery

The Hat Box Mystery

4,5 /10 (6 Votes)
1947 EN 44 min

Overview

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.

Release date

12/06/1947

Votes

6

Popularity

0.5

Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

44 min

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-07-07

⭐ 5

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 consequence 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 wa…

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