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The Hat Box Mystery

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

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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.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Tom Neal

Tom Neal

Russ Ashton

Pamela Blake

Pamela Blake

Susan Hart

Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins

'Harvard'

Virginia Sale

Virginia Sale

Veronica Hoopler

Leonard Penn

Leonard Penn

Stevens, aka John Moreland

Olga Andre

Marie Moreland

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy

Policeman Murphy

Al Hill

Al Hill

Flint