The Hat Box Mystery


The Hat Box Mystery is a 1947 mystery short film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Tom Neal, Pamela Blake and Allen Jenkins. It was produced as a featurette for release by Robert L. Lippert's Screen Guild Productions. It was shot at the General Service Studios in Hollywood, [Los Angeles|Hollywood]. The film's sets were designed by the art director William Glasgow. A sequel The Case of the Babysitter, was released the following month.

Synopsis

Susan Hart, the secretary and fiancée of private detective Russ Ashton takes a case in his absence. Given a hat box by her client with a hidden camera inside she is told to take a photograph of his wife so he can begin divorce proceedings. Instead when she opens the box the woman is shot dead and she finds herself accused of murder.

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