Hook, Line and Sinker
About Hook, Line and Sinker
Insurance men Wilbur Boswell and Addington Ganzy help Mary Marsh turn a rundown hotel she inherited into a resort by advertising it as a rich people's hangout. Rival gangsters both want the safe. Mary's mother Rebecca wants her to marry lawyer John Blackwell, who is working with the gangs, while Mary falls for Wilbur and Rebecca falls for Ganzy. A night shoot-out ends with the pair saving the jewels. Ganzy marries Rebecca and gives Mary away at her wedding to Wilbur.
Cast & crew
More about Hook, Line and Sinker
Edward F. Cline directed Ralph Spence and Tim Whelan's screenplay; Wikidata lists only Spence. William LeBaron produced and Nicholas Musuraca photographed it. Wikidata lists 75 minutes for the 1930 RKO release.
Themes
Audiences
Wikipedia ranks it among RKO's largest financial successes of 1930, without a published total.
Look
Nicholas Musuraca photographed the hotel farce.
Notes
- It was the third starring film for Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.
- Dorothy Lee plays Mary Marsh and Jobyna Howland plays Rebecca.
- Ralf Harolde plays Blackwell, also called Buffalo Blackie. William B. Davidson plays Frank Dukette.
- Wikipedia calls it one of RKO's largest financial successes of 1930 and does not give a dollar figure.
Scenes
- The advertising fills the dead hotel.
- Boswell and Ganzy save the jewels in the night battle.
Also available
- Internet Archive (hook_line_and_sinker)
- Wikimedia Commons (Hook, Line and Sinker (1930) by Edward F. Cline.webm)
