Product Details

• Actors: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Ralf Harolde, Jobyna Howland
• Directors: Edward F. Cline
• Writers: Ralph Spence, Tim Whelan
• Producers: Myles Connolly, William LeBaron
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: October 21, 2003
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000C8AVG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,479 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hook, Line and Sinker" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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HOOK LINE AND SINKER - DVD Movie

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOL Funny!, April 21, 2005

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Gandalf "a reader" (U.S.A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hook, Line and Sinker (DVD)

I think it's thier funniest film ever; too short if anything. This 2004 Digiview transfer doesn't look too bad; especially when the original movie's age is considered. "Hook, Line and Sinker" was the team's fifth film and was directed by Edward F. Cline who had directed W.C. Fields in "The Bank Dick" and "My Little Chickadee" and directed Wheeler and Woolsey in two other films "Cracked Nuts" and "High Flyers" (Their last film). The plot has Wheeler and Woolsey as insurance salesman, who go into the hotel business at the sight of a pretty girl, Mary Marsh (Dorothy Lee, who appeared several times with the team including their first film "Rio Rita"). Marsh is running away from home because she does not want to marry the man her mother has chosen for her. When Wheeler sees her he instantly falls for her and wants to help her run her hotel, which has been abandon for years.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth The Dollar I Paid At Walmart, September 10, 2005

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Tee (LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hook, Line and Sinker (DVD)

This is one of the very worst prints of any film I have ever seen on DVD!!! Wheeler and Woolsey are a very funny comedy team who starred in at least a dozen films in the 1930's, they seemed on the verge of being a real cult act in the 1990's when American Movie Classics ran almost their entire RKO filmography. Alas, today an old movie on American Movie Classics is one from the 1960's and while Turner Classic Movies owns the rights to the RKO library, they don't show much of W&W whose humor is a perhaps a little too low rent for TCM's "classy" image. It's a shame because they are genuinely funny, ingenue Dorothy Lee is a doll, and this actually is a good movie so I hate panning this DVD but the print quality is deplorable. TCM is going to have to air those W&W films eventually because people can only sit through so many showings of the same MGM classics over and over so I would just wait for them to air this if I were you.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Hooked" On Wheeler & Woolsey?, April 14, 2005

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Alex Udvary (chicago, il United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hook, Line and Sinker (DVD)

Near the beginning of this film a character calls Wheeler and Woolsey "delightfully unfunny", talk about truth in advertising!

I'm not a big fan of Wheeler and Woolsey's comedy but I continue to watch their films mostly because they are rare. I've seen 7 of their films, TCM has been playing them quite often. Their films are harmless but, for me, not very engaging. Wheeler and Woolsey were a very popular comedy team for RKO in the 1930s but time has not been kind to them. How do I know they were popular? Because they made 21 films together. Let me tell you the way Hollywood works, they won't let you keep making films if they get nothing out of it. So someone was watching their films.

In the past I've defended Laurel & Hardy's 1940s films such as "Saps at Sea", "Air Raid Wardens", and "A Chump at Oxford". I've even defended Buster Keaton's talking pictures; "Bedroom, Bath & Parlor", "Speak Easily", and "The Passionate Plumber" and while I find Wheeler and Woolsey just as harmless and light as those films they have not left as big an impression on me. Rest a sured there is ALWAYS at least one good gag in their films. If it's really good there are two or three, the films are too short for there to be more. But as time has shown their comedy isn't as fresh as Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Bob Hope or the Marx Brothers.

"Hook, Line and Sinker" was the team's fifth film and was directed by Edward F. Cline. Who had directed W.C. Fields in "The Bank Dick" and "My Little Chickadee" and directed Wheeler and Woolsey in two other films "Cracked Nuts" and "High Flyers" (their last film). The plot has Wheeler and Woolsey as insurance salesman, who go into the hotel business at the sight of a pretty girl, Mary Marsh (Dorothy Lee, who appeared several times with the team including their first film "Rio Rita"). Marsh is running away from home because she does not want to marry the man her mother has chosen for her. When Wheeler sees her he instantly falls for her and wants to help her run her hotel, which has been abandon for years.

To be honest the plot isn't important. The whole reason we are going to wtach this film is strickly because we want to see Wheeler and Woolsey, right? At first I found the film slow, but slowly started having a good time and managed to actually have a smile on my face, could I actually start becoming a fan?

I wrote a review for their film "Kentucky Kernels" and at the time I thought that was their best film. I've since changed my mind as I've seen more films by them. I now think "Peach-O-Reno" is the best with "Hook, Line and Sinker" a distant second.

The film has some bright spots near the end and Woolsey, while not in the ranks of Bob Hope or Groucho Marx, can deliver a one-liner. I found a scene between Wheeler and Lee involving a gun out of character but again the film is worth seeing if for any reason because it's rare. And I even look forward to seeing more of their films in the future.

Bottom-line: Slightly better than most of the Wheeler and Woolsey films I've seen. Has some good moments here and there. It's a harmless silly movie good for those of us who enjoy comedies from the time period.