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Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)


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Title: Hook, Line and Sinker [IMDb]


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Release date: December 24, 1930
Studio: RKO
Runtime: 75 minutes
IMDB genres: comedy, romance, crime

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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. 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.

Plot keywords (from IMDb): advertising, gang, gang war, gunfight, insurance, jewelry, marriage proposal, mother, mother daughter relationship, motorcycle policeman, publicity, renovation, runaway, safe, salesman, socialite, thief, hotel

Cast and Crew

ActorRole
Bert WheelerWilbur Boswell
Robert WoolseyAddington Ganzy
Dorothy LeeMary Marsh
Ralf HaroldeJohn Blackwell
Jobyna HowlandMrs. Rebecca Marsh
Natalie MoorheadDuchess Bessie Von Essie
Hugh HerbertHotel House Detective
Stanley FieldsMcKay
William B. DavidsonFrank Dukette

Edward F. Cline: director

Max Steiner: musical director


Film Statistics

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Film duration: 1:14:41
Music duration: 00:02:53
Pages in score: no score available
Total themes: 2
Themes with variants: 0
Total variants: 0
Total gestures: 0
Total underscoring sections: 0
Total underscoring duration: 00:00:00
Total instances: 3

Source Music

Name Uses
Whistling the Blues Away 2
Three Little Words 1