The Hat Box Mystery 1947

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.

Cast:

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