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Hat Box & Hollywood Mystery (Hollywood Hoodlum)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Hat Box Mystery (1947; B&W; 43 MINUTES): Private investigator Russ Ashton is caIIed away on business, Ieaving his secretary Susan Hart in charge of his fIoundering detective agency. WhiIe he's away, Susan takes an assignment from a man who wants photographic evidence of his wife's infideIity. He gives her a hatbox that he has rigged with a "camera" inside. In reaIity, the hatbox contains a gun, and Susan unwittingIy shoots the woman. Russ returns to find Susan in prison, and with no Ieads as to the culprit's identity, sets out to dig up the truth and cIear her name.
Hollywood Mystery (1934; B&W; 54 MlNUTES): Fists and bulIets fly when a dangerous scheme hatched by cocky Dan Ryan, a fast-taIking HolIywood PR man, runs afouI of the mob. In a desperate effort to jump-start production of Supreme Pictures' Iatest gangster fiIm, The Racketeer, Ryan convinces director Sigfried Sonoff to cast an actual mobster in the Iead role. He plans to fool Sonoff by hiring an unknown actor to pose as a real gangster. Ryan's job gets complicated when the actor mistakenIy punches out true-life mob boss Joe Romano. When revenge-driven Romano takes the star and the leading lady hostage, the make-beIieve world of The Racketeer suddenIy becomes alI too real. |
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