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.
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
Tom Kennedy
Policeman Murphy
Al Hill
Flint
Edward Keane
District Attorney
Zon Murray
Joe
A. Robert Nunes
Witness (As Bob Nunes)
Jack Cheatham
Policeman
Steve Clark
Telephone Re-Connect Man (uncredited)
William Ruhl
Blackmailer (uncredited)
Director
Lambert Hillyer
Screenplay, Story
Carl K. Hittleman
Story
Maury Nunes
Writer
Don Martin
July 7, 2022
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Pamela Blake is "Susan", the assistant to PI Tom Neal ("Russ") whose business has rather hit the skids. Whilst he is away, she takes on a case trying to prove infidelity and using a hat box that, ostensibly, conceals a harmless camera she follows her target. Unfortunately, her snaps have a fatal consequence and she is charged with murder. It falls to "Russ" and his hapless helper "Harvard" (Allen Jenkins) to get to the bottom of it before "Susan" is toast. It's all just a routine B-drama with little jeopardy or menace, but it does have quite a few quite engaging scenes between "Harvard" and waitress "Veronica" (Virginia Sale) who offers him her body but he'd rather have a goose-burger.... It's short and sweet, and though pretty unremarkable, it does pass 45 minutes easily enough.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00