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Hook, Line and Sinker is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward F. Cline released in USA on 26 december 1930 with Robert Woolsey
Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
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Add to a movie listHook, Line and Sinker is a 1930 American Pre-Code slapstick comedy directed by Edward F. Cline from a screenplay by Ralph Spence and Tim Whelan. It was the third starring vehicle for the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey), and also featured Dorothy Lee. It would be one of the largest financial successes for RKO Pictures in 1930.
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Two fast-talking insurance salesmen — Wilbur Boswell and J. Addington Ganzy — help penniless socialite Mary Marsh to turn a dilapidated hotel, which was willed to her, into a thriving success. They soon run into trouble, however, in the form of two sets of rival gangsters who want to break into the hotel safe; also, Mary's mother, Rebecca Marsh, wants her to marry wealthy lawyer John Blackwell, although Mary has fallen in love with Wilbur. And while she takes an instant dislike to Wilbur, Rebecca falls for Ganzy. Adding to the complications is the fact that Blackwell is actually in league with the gangsters. The finale involves nighttime runarounds and a shoot-out in the hotel. During the pitched battle between the rival gangs and the police, Boswell and Ganzy save the jewels, after which Ganzy marries Rebecca, and then gives away Mary at her marriage to Wilbur.Actors
Robert Woolsey
(Addington Ganzy)
Bert Wheeler
(Wilbur Boswell)
William B. Davidson
(Frank Dukette aka Duke of Winchester (as William Davidson))
Stanley Fields
(McKay, Blackwell Henchman)
Ralf Harolde
(John Blackwell aka Buffalo Blackie)
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