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Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
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26 December 1930 (USA)
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Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns...
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One of the Best Wheeler and Woolsey Comedies
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bert Wheeler | ... | Wilbur Boswell |
| Robert Woolsey | ... | Addington Ganzy |
| Dorothy Lee | ... | Mary Marsh |
| Ralf Harolde | ... | John Blackwell aka Buffalo Blackie |
| Jobyna Howland | ... | Mrs. Rebecca Marsh |
| Natalie Moorhead | ... | Duchess Bessie Von Essie |
 | Hugh Herbert | ... | Hotel House Detective |
| George F. Marion | ... | Ritz de la Rivera Bellboy |
| Stanley Fields | ... | McKay, Blackwell Henchman |
| William B. Davidson | ... | Frank Dukette aka Duke of Winchester (as William Davidson) |
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75 min
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1.20 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Photophone System)
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This film, along with Amos 'n' Andy's Check and Double Check (1930), were the most successful of RKO's 1930 productions.
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This is a very funny film starring Wheeler and Woolsey, a comedy team that is all but forgotten these days. Their brand of humor tended to be verbal and punny, but they were also adept physical comedians as well.
Here the pair end up helping, and romancing, a runaway fom a rich family. She's inherited a hotel and the boys decide to help her turn it into THE hot spot. Using their way with words they manage to have newspapers write the place up---mentioning how safe their safe is. This of course brings a steady stream of crooks all of which want to be the one to crack the safe.
Extremely well written, the film suffers from a few slow spots where the fast and furious dialog stop for a silent shot or moment. Normally it wouldn't be bad, but here it off sets the pacing of the film, which for the most part is fast moving, even if it seems not to have a direction.
If you want to see a good comedy you haven't seen before, by all means pick this up, its 75 minutes well spent.