The Hat Box Mystery
Feature film · 42 min · dir. Lambert Hillyer
Like-a-Jack-in-the-Box----Murder jumped out and claimed its Victim!
- Crime
- Comedy
- Mystery
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Lambert Hillyer
- Writer
- Maury Nunes
- Studio
- Robert L. Lippert Productions, Screen Art Pictures Corp.
- Released
- 1947-06-12
- Running time
- 42 minutes
Cast & crew
Lambert Hillyer Director
Tom Neal
Pamela Blake
Allen Jenkins
Virginia Sale
Leonard Penn
Olga Andre
Tom Kennedy
Al Hill
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★ · The Mystery of the Defective Detective, His Half-Wit Assistant and His Careless Secretary · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-18
Fortunately this film is only 42 minutes long - best for a rainy Saturday afternoon after it has already rained steadily for a week and you want something both intentionally and unintentionally almost amusing. A plot which is rather unbelievable followed by a solution that is even more preposterous - in between, a lot of hamburgers get eaten.
