The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

Name: The Hat Box Mystery
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Mystery
Released: 1947-06-12
Duration: 44 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Tom Neal, Pamela Blake, Allen Jenkins, Virginia Sale, Leonard Penn

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

★ 4.5 (6) 44m 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.