Hook, Line and Sinker

Riding a Cyclone of Laughs Through a Broadway Hotel

Hook, Line and Sinker — Plot

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. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.

• Release date
• December 26, 1930
• Runtime
• 75 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Romance
• Director
• Edward F. Cline

Hook, Line and Sinker — Cast

Bert Wheeler Wilbur Boswell Robert Woolsey Addington Ganzy Dorothy Lee Mary Marsh Jobyna Howland Mrs. Rebecca Marsh Natalie Moorhead Duchess Bessie Von Essie Hugh Herbert Hotel House Detective George F. Marion Ritz de la Rivera Bellboy William B. Davidson Frank Dukette aka Duke of Winchester (as William Davidson)