Hook, Line and Sinker
"Riding a Cyclone of Laughs Through a Broadway Hotel"
1930
2.8
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.
1930
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.
- director
- Edward F. Cline
- cast
- Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Jobyna Howland
- runtime
- 1 hr 15 mins