- 20/04/2025
'Hook, Line and Sinker' is a "1930 American pre-Code slapstick comedy" directed by Edward F. Cline. The film stars "Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey", a popular comedy duo of the era, alongside Dorothy Lee. The story follows two fast-talking insurance salesmen who help a penniless socialite turn her inherited, run-down hotel into a thriving business. However, their plans are complicated by rival gangsters, mistaken identities, and a chaotic shootout. With "witty dialogue, physical comedy, and classic Wheeler & Woolsey antics", this film was one of RKO Pictures’ biggest successes of 1930.
Credits:
Director: Edward F. Cline
Producer: William LeBaron
Starring: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Jobyna Howland
Screenplay: Ralph Spence, Tim Whelan
Cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca
#HookLineAndSinker1930 #ClassicHollywood #PreCodeCinema #SlapstickComedy
Credits:
Director: Edward F. Cline
Producer: William LeBaron
Starring: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Jobyna Howland
Screenplay: Ralph Spence, Tim Whelan
Cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca
#HookLineAndSinker1930 #ClassicHollywood #PreCodeCinema #SlapstickComedy
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00:00:00To be continued
00:00:30The End
00:01:00Head over there, you...
00:01:02Now, don't say what's your hurry.
00:01:04Yeah, and don't ask us where the fire is.
00:01:09Didn't you guys see me wave at you?
00:01:11Well, we waved back, didn't we?
00:01:12Yeah, he did like this.
00:01:13Shut up. You broke a traffic law.
00:01:16Well, can't you make another one?
00:01:18I'm gonna give both you guys a ticket.
00:01:21Well, be sure they're down front. My partner doesn't see very well.
00:01:24Yeah, my glasses.
00:01:25Don't try to kid me.
00:01:27Guys like you, they keep us cops busy.
00:01:30Don't you ever think of accidents?
00:01:31Accidents?
00:01:32Accidents!
00:01:32My dear man, that's our business.
00:01:35Allow me.
00:01:36Accidents.
00:01:37My card, my card.
00:01:39Boswell and Gansey.
00:01:41Insurance, eh?
00:01:42Yes, sir.
00:01:43This is Mr. Boswell.
00:01:44Mr. Boswell, shake hands with Mr. Policeman.
00:01:46I'm pleased to meet you.
00:01:47And this is Mr. Gansey.
00:01:48Mr. Gansey, shake hands with Mr. Policeman.
00:01:50I'm pleased to meet you, sir.
00:01:51I'm pleased to meet you.
00:01:52Now, here's a policy that offers triple protection against bruises, earthquakes, and relatives.
00:01:57Have you ever stopped to realize that old age is creeping up on you?
00:02:00My dear man, you owe it to your wife.
00:02:02I haven't got a wife.
00:02:03We'll get you one.
00:02:04Yes.
00:02:04Now, I would like to ask you a few questions.
00:02:07How's your liver?
00:02:08What?
00:02:08Now, don't tell me you haven't got a liver.
00:02:10But I don't need any insurance.
00:02:11You are just the type that does need insurance.
00:02:14Why, do you realize that since 1910, they have discovered 52 new ways of dying?
00:02:19And you don't look well.
00:02:21Yes.
00:02:21Why, uh, uh, people are dying this year that have never died before.
00:02:25Well, what kind of insurance do you do?
00:02:27Any kind.
00:02:27Now, answer me.
00:02:28Answer me.
00:02:29In the morning when you get up, do you sort of have a numpy feeling in here?
00:02:32Uh, come to think of it, I believe I do.
00:02:34Just as I thought.
00:02:36Gallstone.
00:02:36Gallstone.
00:02:41Ah, another prospect.
00:02:47And what a prospect.
00:02:50Hey, give her sales talk number seven.
00:02:53And don't come back without a policy.
00:02:56Now then, where were we?
00:02:56Oh, yes, around the gallstone area.
00:02:58Why, man, do you realize that you've got enough gallstones to start a quarry?
00:03:06Hello.
00:03:06Hello.
00:03:08Are, um, are we holding you up?
00:03:10Yes.
00:03:11And I'm awfully angry about it.
00:03:14Ah.
00:03:15What's your name?
00:03:16Mary.
00:03:17Mary Marsh.
00:03:18Mary?
00:03:19Gee, that's a swell name.
00:03:22My name is Wilbur.
00:03:24I don't mind.
00:03:28Now, uh, let's see your tongue.
00:03:31Say ah.
00:03:32Ah.
00:03:33Just as I thought.
00:03:35You reached me just in time.
00:03:37Has it got a coat on it?
00:03:38Not only a coat, but a vest and a pair of pants.
00:03:43You know, Mary, you're the kind of a girl that I could...
00:03:48Hey!
00:03:49Number seven!
00:03:53Have you ever stopped to realize that old age is creeping up on you?
00:03:56What are you talking about?
00:03:58Protection.
00:03:59That's what you need.
00:04:00Throughout your declining years, you will need to be provided for, and I am here to offer you that protection.
00:04:05Well, that's awfully nice of you, and, and, and I think you're, well, you have to let me think it over for a while.
00:04:13Oh, that is the trouble with America today.
00:04:16Procrastinate.
00:04:17Procrast, uh, why give it up?
00:04:19Accept my proposition now, and know the value of a steady income and the happiness of a contented family.
00:04:26Well, I just met you, and I think I could like you an awful lot, and, and, and I think we could be awfully happy together, and, well, I might accept your proposal, but, well, you'd have to ask Mother anyway.
00:04:40Now that I've signed this policy, suppose I got double pneumonia.
00:04:44Oh, then you would be lucky.
00:04:46Lucky?
00:04:47Certainly.
00:04:47Because then you'll get a great bargain.
00:04:49Instead of dealing with you in the singular, we pay you off in the plurality.
00:04:56Oh, I see.
00:04:58Good luck.
00:04:59You'll need it.
00:05:00I'm certainly glad I met you, fellas.
00:05:03Mary, I want you to meet my partner, Mr. J. Addington Gansey.
00:05:09This is Mary Marsh.
00:05:10How do you do?
00:05:11Fidget the digit, honey.
00:05:12Fidget the digit.
00:05:13You know, I love the name of Marsh.
00:05:14It's so mellow.
00:05:16Has, uh, has my partner been telling you about wonderful insurance?
00:05:18Oh, is that what he was talking about?
00:05:22Well, not exactly.
00:05:23You see, I, uh, tell us something about yourself, Mary.
00:05:27Well, I'm running away from home.
00:05:29No.
00:05:30Yes.
00:05:31You see, it's like this.
00:05:32My mother made millions out of oil.
00:05:34Oh, tell me about it, child.
00:05:36Tell me about it.
00:05:37But she lost most of it.
00:05:39Tell him about it, child.
00:05:40Tell him about it.
00:05:41But why are you running away?
00:05:43Oh, because my mother wants me to marry our attorney, John Blackwell.
00:05:47You did right, Mary.
00:05:49But where are you running to?
00:05:50To my hotel.
00:05:51Oh, your hotel.
00:05:53Oh, your hotel.
00:05:54Yes, the Rip St. La Riviera at Florelhurst.
00:05:57Now, my plan is to go down there and operate it myself, make it a success, and then I can be independent.
00:06:03And you're perfectly right.
00:06:04All you need is a couple of good men like us to help you out.
00:06:07And are we good men?
00:06:08Oh, we are now in the hotel business.
00:06:11Gee, that's grand.
00:06:13Boy, that's what I call exhilarating.
00:06:15What?
00:06:16Exhilarating.
00:06:17Exhilarating.
00:06:18I'll have to look that up.
00:06:21Exhilarating.
00:06:22Let's be off.
00:06:23Wait a minute.
00:06:24You boys know anything about hotels?
00:06:26Oh, do we know anything about hotels?
00:06:28Child, there are several hotels looking for us right this very minute.
00:06:32What's the matter?
00:06:48You out of gas?
00:06:49No.
00:06:50This is a hotel.
00:06:52Pretty, isn't it?
00:06:54Showplace, I call it.
00:06:55Showplace.
00:06:56John Blackwell certainly was lying.
00:06:58I think it's a shame the way he left this hotel run down.
00:07:01It's run down all right.
00:07:03You know, it's supposed to be early Victorian.
00:07:06Very early.
00:07:07Too early.
00:07:08Mother said that all the big bugs used to live there.
00:07:11They're probably still here.
00:07:13Let's look around.
00:07:30You've been to Ketut.
00:07:49This is the place where King Tut is buried.
00:07:53Buried.
00:07:55It looks like the place where he was born.
00:07:58Where did you say you got this hotel?
00:08:00my uncle gave it to me honey you've been robbed robbed is right oh come on addington let's look
00:08:11around we might be able to put it over it would be easier to push it over
00:08:16is it a mummy no it's father time's grandfather
00:08:31boy boy come from my good man wait wait let's see who's registered here
00:08:41general grant lydia pecan buffalo bill quite a cat quite a cat you think they're still here
00:08:52they are if they left the call with him ah the morning paper
00:09:03oh boy wait till they hear what dewey did at manila bay you'd better wake him the old man
00:09:09he made him dead boy boy this is becoming irksome come come come on lunch hey
00:09:13lunch can't city all out
00:09:20lad this young lady here has placed us in full charge of the hotel rich the river
00:09:25and we intend to place it where it belongs now our first innovation is to uh be the inauguration of
00:09:32the eight hour day eight hours in the morning and eight hours in the afternoon
00:09:35that don't help me any i'm the night man
00:10:05that's all right little one i'm here who's our guest
00:10:25well he ain't no guest he's the house detective i'm afraid to think it's a bus come on let's sign off
00:10:31oh boys we've got to think of something gee it would be wonderful if we could do something with
00:10:36this hotel wonderful it would be miraculous it would make a swell fire
00:10:45wait a minute i've just given birth to one idea my how you must have suffered listen
00:10:53now listen to knowledge what this hotel needs is publicity i'll send the story to all the leading
00:10:58newspapers saying the society has adopted the hotel as a fad in two weeks time this old bird
00:11:03cage will be on the map now top that one if you care
00:11:08now you two just go on back there sit down and relax and i'll telephone the good news to the newspaper
00:11:13that's the idea just relax hello central sorry to disturb you connect me with the editor of the new
00:11:30new york examiner a chair son so that i may be able to sit and think hello editor new york examiner
00:11:39uh this is gansey speaking gansey of gansey gansey and gansey operators of the world's greatest hotel
00:11:47yes we have recently taken over the hotel rich de la riviera at floralhurst and we are making it the mecca
00:11:53of society yes why at this very moment one of the world's greatest painters is busy redecorating
00:12:04uh we have installed the safer safe of the world yes yes so that society may come here and feel that
00:12:10their jewels will be absolutely safe yes uh why our register already carries some of the world's most
00:12:17prominent names and one man is here with his wife yes yes i know you will yes all right well boy how's
00:12:27that that's telling them boy i never fall down on anything
00:12:31so that's why i don't believe it's new fad the hotel rips did a world
00:12:46the rendezvous of wealth and fashion rendezvous i don't believe it the rendezvous
00:12:53the hotel well it looks as if mary was getting somewhere even if she did run away that story is
00:13:02absurd as your attorney i can't sanction this crazy business you can't sanction wealth and fashion
00:13:07plotting to the rich ah nonsense mary has probably fallen to the hands of some very clever confidence
00:13:12men and she'll doubtless wind up for losing her hotel listen anything that happens to that hotel will be
00:13:18an improvement yes well what about something that may happen to mary i never thought of that no well
00:13:29i haven't thought about anything but mary you know how much i love her oh i already you've told me
00:13:34often enough what are you plans i'll go there at once throw those men out and bring mary home where
00:13:41she belongs you're optimistic you don't know mary now don't worry i'll settle this that is if you'll back
00:13:48me up back you up i'll be right behind you in fact i'll go along with you well all right
00:13:59i'll meet you here at 12.
00:14:06can you imagine i can all set to marry the girls take over the property and a couple of half smart
00:14:12guys come along and mess up my plans you ain't afraid of them are you no
00:14:16i'm just apprehensive as they find out about our hideaway in the hotel basement we're lost
00:14:23hey let's get down there take them for a ride or put them on the spot well my motto is give them the
00:14:29pineapple it never fails all right max you get down there as quickly as you can but don't do any
00:14:36shooting until you see me this looks like pie for us boys now remember you're going to mix with the
00:14:55best people so watch your step and the first guy that says ain't gets a sock in the nose but i'm going
00:15:02to send the duchess down to try and wiggle the combination out of those two birds that are
00:15:06running the joint now listen spagoni you go on down ahead and look the joint over we'll meet you there
00:15:14sure chief
00:15:18the duchess is one of the cleverest wives i ever had
00:15:21hello hello oh how are you do yes i was just reading the story rather expected your call sounds great
00:15:39okay i'll go down first and meet you there right goodbye
00:15:51are you ringing
00:16:21no i was polling i thought you were dead take a glass of water to room 16 to drink
00:16:28no the lady wants to make a high dive say you know i'm not as big a fool as i used to be have you
00:16:35been dieting this is the hotel ritz de la riviera yes just a moment oh mr gandley yes mr boswell a
00:16:46gentleman in cincinnata wants to know if the fish are biting if they are they're biting each other
00:16:50they're hungry no they're not hungry yes are you sleuth all right
00:16:59that young fella's a human dynamo it is everything he has on is charged
00:17:03you know things ain't so quiet around here no more i may decide to quit in that case we require two
00:17:13weeks written notice why i can't write then that settles that now uh go upstairs and count the chambermaids
00:17:20and uh report to me every now and then every now and then every now and then
00:17:28every now and then
00:17:32thank you look where's telegrams gosh if this keeps up you'll have to build an annex to this hotel
00:17:38well gee it's a long time since i've seen you yeah almost an hour and you still like me more than ever
00:17:50more than ever body more than any body now let's don't go into that here here read some telegram
00:17:57here's one from harold van asterville he wants two rooms and four bands the man's a channel swimmer
00:18:09listen to this one reserve wedding suite for myself and friends also room for the wife
00:18:17that's what i call breaking them in
00:18:19ah customers be alert lad be alert
00:18:34greetings greetings and salutations how you do gentlemen have you the reservation for the duchess
00:18:40bessie vanessie why you're the kind we throw them out for will you register bessie oh you are so kind
00:18:50how do you spell betty yes
00:18:55pardon you see your american english it is so different yes those are scott
00:19:01what uh what kind of a room would you like duchess what kind of room would you like i should like a
00:19:05room in which i can amuse and cogitate suppose i give you one where you can see as a robot
00:19:12you mean to tell me you'll never cogitate not while i'm on duty madam not while i'm on duty
00:19:17look that word up will you
00:19:26would you like a room with or without
00:19:28i will leave everything to you
00:19:33he's my partner you'll have to give me half son son can't you see that we're in conference return to
00:19:40your cogitating i hate that word how'd you say is this the wonderful safe i have read so much about
00:19:48yes yes would you care to look it over oh that would be very very interesting well step this way madam step this way
00:19:57there you are it's a 1932 model seven bearing crankshaft
00:20:02no tin there hydraulic brake all wool in the yard wire is it burglar throat it is so far a very fine
00:20:11says indeed i shall probably look into it later oh you must you must
00:20:15you must be able to find out what's the matter with you what's the matter with that dame nothing the lady is
00:20:44simply eccentric i'll show her up
00:20:51i trust you will forgive my partner duchess you see he falls for every pretty girl he sees
00:20:57i could not refuse you anything you are so fascinating yes i suppose so you know duchess
00:21:03sometimes i think it's a curse oh by the way is it customary to dress for dinner here oh yes yes
00:21:09we dress for all meals here it gets a little drappy around six
00:21:17you know i think addington's idea is going to turn out all wrong oh 10 30 and all's well did you hear
00:21:26that even the chief himself says it all as well well i don't believe anything i hear these days honey
00:21:32you're gonna believe me greetings my friend greetings and sanitation i'd like a sweet certainly
00:21:45certainly something modern or comfortable or something high up something high up would 30
00:21:51dollars a day be high enough quite satisfactory may i register certainly sir certainly uh democrat or republican
00:21:59oh well you love it here our radiators yodel all night i'd like a room with a good exposure
00:22:13you want a room with exposure are we going to allow that here certainly your stupidity is stupendous
00:22:20stupendous stupendous stupendous stupendous stupendous stupendous stupendous not that way not that
00:22:27s-t-double-o-t-double-a hey is that the famous safe i read about oh yes yes that's our safe well i got
00:22:37a lot of valuable jewels with me and i'd like to look it over if it's in order why certainly sir it's always
00:22:41in order would you step this way very sturdy looking safe i should say in what uh compartment
00:22:56will my values be kept here's where we keep all the valuable jewels sir very very interesting
00:23:01i'll send my jewels down later good good our safe will always be open to you thanks
00:23:11my word there's going to be trouble around here just a few samples from my father's factory
00:23:31he manufactures lawnmowers it's a great mower all right
00:23:41do you really think that fella's all right don't give it a thought society people are simply eccentric
00:23:51he's a big shot
00:23:55big shot he's a whole arsenal
00:24:0711 o'clock and all's well
00:24:11i don't like his looks
00:24:16honey do you remember the other night in the moonlight night when we were in the boat
00:24:22huh
00:24:23me do i it wasn't it fun that we were
00:24:27mother well i'm glad you admitted after trying so hard to run away from me
00:24:32who's this odd looking person
00:24:37this is will boswell mother oh it is is it
00:24:40well i don't like his looks reminds me of your father
00:24:45i'm pleased to meet you yeah you just think you're pleased to meet me
00:24:49mary you've made a great mistake and embarrassed your mother dreadfully
00:24:51oh but mr boswell here and his friend mr gamsey are wonderful hotel specialists
00:24:56and mother they're going to make us a fortune
00:24:58i see
00:24:59good afternoon folks good afternoon good afternoon are you being taken care of are you
00:25:03good afternoon
00:25:06there will now be a slight pause for station announcement
00:25:11this is my mother mr gans oh well that's different how are you mother how are you how are you
00:25:16well
00:25:18and mr blackwell
00:25:19well fidget the digits old pal fidget the digits you're going to love us around here you're going to love us
00:25:24are you the mother of that beautiful child yes i am
00:25:28well sir do you know that i have never seen beauty so perfectly transplanted
00:25:33oh mr pansy yes hey not pansy gandey gandey look yeah yeah
00:25:43is that your little boy no mr blackwell is my attorney and is to be my future son-in-law oh yes
00:25:49i guess mary will have something to say about that
00:25:57you know mr pansy
00:26:00yeah yeah you know mr gaga
00:26:03i must be very careful of my daughter's social standing one must have a social position nowadays
00:26:10either that or a job
00:26:12you know i've always thought that maybe we should marry a man or me
00:26:16oh by all means mrs march by all means and you should do the same oh we should stand you see
00:26:21the old christmas christmas are you married no i've got this way from riding a bicycle
00:26:32i think i'll register you're taking your register you little mudwop
00:26:41i want a large room you'll need it what's that
00:26:45i say we got some nice open ones come on mother i'll show you your room
00:26:51you know i think you're a man of charm and interest you'll be the great success of this hotel
00:26:58that wasn't for him
00:27:03i'll see you later
00:27:04have a boy show me my room certainly certainly your room number would be uh 28
00:27:17well if you wish anything else just read a towel
00:27:25you're both are delightfully unfunny
00:27:29you're gonna wipe out our business with those towel jokes
00:27:31it won't be long now do you really think that mary will have to marry that fellow i suppose she will it's customary
00:27:43but i'm in love with mary you've got to do something about it for instance what
00:27:51if i could think i wouldn't ask you but if you're a pal of mine you'll do something
00:27:56i got it listen i'll marry mrs marsh then i will be married father when that happens i'll give my
00:28:07consent to your marriage to my daughter which will make you my son it's a little involved but it'll work
00:28:14out all right addington you don't mean to tell me you'd marry that battleship certainly that's a lot
00:28:22of woman boy a lot of woman look boy we're getting the cream of society good afternoon my good man
00:28:35what good can we do for you nice weather we're having that is for a small town like this
00:28:41i am the duke of winchester i would like a very expensive room you'll get it
00:28:49ah i see my wife is here your wife yes in 24. oh yes in 24. that was six years after the war
00:28:59is uh yeah that's not a little safe a marvelous piece of furniture and now if you don't mind
00:29:05i'll go to my room i don't mind a bit you just run right along
00:29:11look at this
00:29:21why it couldn't be him it couldn't be but it is wait a minute
00:29:26i'll ask you i beg your pardon sir is that you
00:29:30oh my oh my i do wish they would catch this scoundrel well you know the police are not the hot
00:29:44around here no no they're very lackadaisical
00:29:52i'm getting sick of this
00:29:53like like like like
00:29:59you know i've been mistaken for him many times it's most annoying oh yes i should say it must be
00:30:06what ragged he got running around looking like you anyway rather a peculiar coincidence
00:30:13a what very peculiar yeah it must have been two other fellas yes yes it must i'll show you up
00:30:20personally sir i'm honored
00:30:32mr gansey seems very intelligent but if that other person had another brain he'd still have just one
00:30:40oh mother i think you're all wrong about wilbur he has such a sweet personality
00:30:45and the man you can trust nonsense john blackwood's a man for you he's wealthy world and why
00:30:59oh my love you are here we must have and i like it very much oh i'm so glad i'm so good
00:31:06oh i'm so sorry you bring the luggage
00:31:14i think he knows the combination of the states what do we do dominate it wear him down
00:31:22it's your cues from me
00:31:30beat it i'll get him
00:31:31can i do anything else for you yes
00:31:50i am starving well i'm a little hungry myself but i am starving for love love
00:32:02stop
00:32:06come over here no will you come over here why certainly
00:32:16now put your arms around me
00:32:19put your arms around me now make love to me
00:32:25make love to me
00:32:26i simply will not be mother-in-law to such a person as well
00:32:38but i don't care i love him and i'm going to marry
00:32:41make love to me
00:32:51he must be sick or something
00:32:59yeah something is right
00:33:00All right.
00:33:07Now, I want you to do something.
00:33:10Now, Duchess, wait a minute.
00:33:12Wait a minute.
00:33:13Listen.
00:33:15My husband stole my mother's wedding ring.
00:33:18Tonight he will put it in the safe.
00:33:20I must have that ring back.
00:33:22And I want you to give me the combination to the safe.
00:33:25But I don't know the combination.
00:33:27Don't lie to me.
00:33:28Honest.
00:33:29My partner's the only one who knows us.
00:33:32Go down and get it from him.
00:33:35Well, I'll try.
00:33:37But he's the tightest guy I ever saw.
00:33:42Wait.
00:33:59What is the matter?
00:34:11Duchess.
00:34:12Do me a favor.
00:34:13What?
00:34:14Please don't tell anybody about this.
00:34:16Is there another woman in your life?
00:34:17Only Mary.
00:34:18No.
00:34:19You see, that is I, uh...
00:34:20Mary.
00:34:21If I find this Mary or any other woman making love to you, I'll kill her.
00:34:25So will I.
00:34:26Mary.
00:34:27Mary.
00:34:28Don't talk to me.
00:34:29I saw any arms of that woman.
00:34:30Oh, but Mary, I...
00:34:31Oh, gee, Mary.
00:34:32Honey.
00:34:33Oh, now wait a minute, Mary.
00:34:34Honest, Mary.
00:34:35We let the excuse...
00:34:36Oh, will you leave me alone?
00:34:37Stop.
00:34:38Come over here.
00:34:39I won't do it.
00:34:40Come here.
00:34:41You...
00:34:42You broke.
00:34:43I don't care.
00:34:44I don't care.
00:34:45No, no, no, no.
00:34:46Who's the matter?
00:34:47No, no, no.
00:34:48No, no, no.
00:34:49No, no, no.
00:34:50No, no, no.
00:34:51No, no, no.
00:34:52No, no, no.
00:34:53The other one.
00:34:54I won't do it.
00:34:55I won't do it.
00:34:57You broke.
00:34:58No.
00:34:59I won't do it.
00:35:00Oh, Mary.
00:35:01Don't talk to me.
00:35:02I saw any arms of that woman.
00:35:04Oh, but Mary, I, I...
00:35:05Oh, gee, Mary.
00:35:06Come on. Over here. Will you come over here? Come on. Put your arms around me. Come on. Now make love to me.
00:35:25Oh, Wilbur. I do love you, but I don't trust you. I know, honey. I can explain everything. It'll take a long time. But I can do it.
00:35:43Are you sure there's no other woman? Positive, precious. Oh, Wilbur. I'm so happy. So am I.
00:35:54And you promise we'll never have another quarrel? I swear. Knock on wood.
00:36:06Honey, we'll never have another argument again as long as we live.
00:36:11Well? You get out of here. Go on. Get out. Why, how dare you make love to me? I never saw her before in my life. Positively, Duchess. Why, she's a perfect stranger to me. Go on. Get out of here.
00:36:39Go on. Duchess. Why are women weak for me? Get that combination. Yes, sir.
00:36:55Do you think he'll get the combination to the safe? I doubt it. Well, then you'll have to vamp the other fellow. All right. All right. I will. Mr. Barton. Mr. Gansey. That Mr. Blackwell and a gang of cooks are plotting in room.
00:37:13Twenty-eight. There you are, Addington. What did I tell you? I'll go upstairs and get an earful of what they're saying. And I'm going with you.
00:37:19Well, it's worse than I thought. The girl is in love with one of them. Looks like the old lady is going to fall for the other one.
00:37:25Looks like our work is cut out for us. Yeah.
00:37:29Well, it's worse than I thought. The girl is in love with one of them. Looks like the old lady is going to fall for the other one.
00:37:34Well, it's worse than I thought.
00:37:40The girl is in love with one of them.
00:37:42Looks like the old lady is going to fall for the other one.
00:37:44So it seems like our work is cut out for us.
00:37:46Yeah.
00:37:57Come on in here.
00:37:58This one.
00:38:04Which is which, Chief?
00:38:12The thin one's Danzy.
00:38:14The other one's Bobwell.
00:38:15Nice boys.
00:38:16Just the type I like.
00:38:19You see, you're all wrong.
00:38:21They're very fond of us.
00:38:23They are?
00:38:23Certainly.
00:38:26Let's put them on the spot.
00:38:28No.
00:38:29I think we ought to take them for a ride.
00:38:32All right.
00:38:34We'll take them for a ride.
00:38:39Hey.
00:38:40You know what they're going to do?
00:38:41What?
00:38:42Tomorrow they're going to take us for a nice long ride.
00:38:45They are?
00:38:46Yeah.
00:38:49I hope it don't rain.
00:38:54After the ride,
00:38:55I'll give them each a nice juicy pineapple.
00:39:00Hey.
00:39:01What?
00:39:01Just what?
00:39:02What?
00:39:02They're going to give us each a nice juicy pineapple.
00:39:05They are?
00:39:06Yeah.
00:39:09When I just lump pineapples.
00:39:13Hey.
00:39:14What?
00:39:15I wonder if I could get them to change mine to a grapefruit.
00:39:17They're juicier.
00:39:19You can ask them.
00:39:19I will.
00:39:20Listen.
00:39:22What?
00:39:24Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
00:39:27I got you.
00:39:29Which only goes to prove that you were full of fears and foolish fantasies.
00:39:33You're right, Addington.
00:39:35I feel so badly about this thing.
00:39:37I think I'll go in and hide.
00:39:40Good.
00:39:40You go hide and I'll go see.
00:39:42I'll give you an extra hundred for the job if you do it nice and clean.
00:39:54Don't worry.
00:39:56I used to be a dry cleaner.
00:40:01Hi, Missy.
00:40:02Oh, uh.
00:40:03Could you help a lady in distress?
00:40:06In distress quicker than any other dress?
00:40:08What, uh, what seems to be the difficulty?
00:40:11I can't get the cork out of a bottle.
00:40:14Oh, well, then you have to stop the right man.
00:40:16My first job was in the bottling works.
00:40:17I was a corker.
00:40:19Oh, I just knew you were a man of force.
00:40:22Not only a man of force, but a man of muscle, Duchess.
00:40:24Feel that.
00:40:27Not so hard, Duchess.
00:40:28Not so hard.
00:40:38Ten o'clock, and all's well.
00:40:50Oganzi and Boswell are confident men.
00:40:54Crooks.
00:40:55They are not.
00:40:56Whatever Wilbur Boswell is, he's not a crook.
00:40:59Well, perhaps not.
00:41:01But I don't think they'll be here tomorrow.
00:41:03Why do you say that?
00:41:05My information comes from a very reliable source.
00:41:09I still don't believe.
00:41:12Supposing they do disappear tomorrow?
00:41:15Will you marry me?
00:41:18Well, well, well, well, folks.
00:41:19I certainly am glad to see you entering into the spirit of the occasion.
00:41:22Come on, John.
00:41:23Let's have a dog.
00:41:25Addington has something to talk over with me, please.
00:41:27Addington?
00:41:29Yes, Addington.
00:41:31Come on.
00:41:31Come on, Mother.
00:41:32See you around.
00:41:32What in the world are you and Mother talking about?
00:41:36Your Mother and I have just been laying a few domestic plans.
00:41:39You see, we've decided to get married and ain't it all.
00:41:42Married?
00:41:43Yeah, so you may now consider me your papa.
00:41:46Come, child.
00:41:47Sit.
00:41:50But I'm not sure I want you for a papa.
00:41:53What?
00:41:53Why, I'll make the finest little father that you ever had in your life.
00:41:57And if you're a good little girl, I may allow you to marry Wilbur.
00:42:00But I don't want to marry Wilbur now.
00:42:03Why, daughter?
00:42:04Why?
00:42:05Well, because he has a complex.
00:42:07That's all right.
00:42:08I'll make him trade it for a sedan.
00:42:11No, no.
00:42:12I mean, he has another sweetheart.
00:42:15He has?
00:42:16Why, the scoundrel.
00:42:17I'll teach him to trifle with my little gal.
00:42:19Hey, what's the idea?
00:42:24I'm fixing it for you.
00:42:25Fixing it?
00:42:27You're chiseling.
00:42:28That's what you're doing.
00:42:29Don't pay any attention to that man, Daddy.
00:42:37What is this thing called love?
00:42:41I hope you do marry your mother and she falls on you.
00:42:45I'm going out and do something desperate.
00:42:48Daddy, what makes him so wicked?
00:42:51He isn't wicked, daughter.
00:42:53He's weak.
00:42:55Do you think he knows me more than the Duchess?
00:42:58Why, honey, he wouldn't trade you for all the Duchess Mulholland.
00:43:02What do you think I should do?
00:43:04Well, now that I've given my consent,
00:43:07I think you ought to look him up and tell him that everything is hotsy-totsy.
00:43:11Hmm, but you're going to make a granddaddy?
00:43:13A granddaddy?
00:43:3110.30 and all's well.
00:43:36If all's well now,
00:43:39I'd hate to see anything go wrong.
00:43:41Say, that's the best idea you've had since you came here.
00:43:53Here.
00:43:55Try that.
00:44:02Do you suppose I could hit my brain?
00:44:05Well, you'll have to be an awful good shot.
00:44:13Oh, Wilbur, please forgive me.
00:44:15Daddy told me the truth about that Duchess.
00:44:18You're just in time, honey.
00:44:19I was going to kill myself.
00:44:21I can't live without you.
00:44:27And I can't live without you either, Wilbur.
00:44:30Honey, let's not go on the patio.
00:44:41Sit up here a minute.
00:44:44I want to talk to you about our future.
00:44:51Honey,
00:44:51We're going to put this hotel over.
00:44:55Then we'll be married.
00:44:57We're going to have a yacht.
00:45:00Summer and a winter home.
00:45:02Two automobiles.
00:45:05And, uh...
00:45:06Yeah?
00:45:08A motorcycle.
00:45:09Oh,
00:45:09and maybe...
00:45:39I'll split the difference, will you?
00:45:50Okay.
00:46:09There must be a storm.
00:46:39The lights are out.
00:46:43See, I'm scared.
00:46:44Let's find Mother Nattieson.
00:46:45Come on, honey.
00:46:56My girl, this reminds me of down in Nero, Oklahoma.
00:46:58Come on, get out of here.
00:47:09Hey, we'd better call this thing off or turn it into a swimming party.
00:47:14Quite right, Wilbur.
00:47:14Quite right.
00:47:15Uh, folks, on account of this slight weather disturbance, I think we'd better call the party off until tomorrow night.
00:47:21Oh.
00:47:22I would like to place my jewels in the safe.
00:47:28Rare judgment, Duchess, rare judgment.
00:47:31I'll do the same.
00:47:32An excellent idea.
00:47:34Oh, I'm not sure about this safe business.
00:47:37You're never sure about anything.
00:47:39Follow me, folks, and I'll open the safe for you.
00:47:47Boy, go upstairs and light some of those oil lamps right away.
00:47:50Hey, Wilbur, you open the safe.
00:47:52I'll collect the jewels.
00:47:53Now, we have a little offaloo for you, folks.
00:47:54All you have to do is place them in the air and tear on your seat.
00:47:57Very late at the safe, folks.
00:48:01They're putting them in a box.
00:48:02Come on.
00:48:03Let's get into our working clothes.
00:48:15Hey, boy.
00:48:16Come on, let's get going and beat that Duke and his gang to it.
00:48:23Good night, folks.
00:48:24Good night.
00:48:25Good night.
00:48:27Now, you have them steel tightly, have you?
00:48:28That's fine.
00:48:29Now, you can go to sleep and rest easy.
00:48:31Good night.
00:48:32Good night.
00:48:34Oh, you want it to keep that for you?
00:48:36Certainly.
00:48:38Good night, old boy.
00:48:39Sleep tight.
00:48:39Hey, Sherlock.
00:48:51All's well.
00:48:55Yes, and we want to keep it that way.
00:48:56Come here.
00:49:01You see this safe?
00:49:03Well, it's crammed full of valuable jewels.
00:49:06Is it?
00:49:06Is it?
00:49:09I'm telling you.
00:49:10And it's your duty to keep your eye on it all night.
00:49:13Don't take your eye off of it.
00:49:18Okay, Chief.
00:49:19Leave it to me.
00:49:19Don't make any mistakes.
00:49:33Right.
00:49:35Two of us will go down on the back stairway.
00:49:37Mike, you keep us covered from the other end of the balcony.
00:49:42Now, listen, boys.
00:49:44We've got to work fast.
00:49:45Help yourself with the stuff in the safe.
00:49:48But the main thing is Gansey and Boswell.
00:49:51Get them.
00:49:52That's Izzy's job.
00:49:53You take care of them.
00:49:54All right.
00:49:55I'm going to stick around on the balcony.
00:49:57And if anybody puts in, I'm going to pop.
00:49:59I think I'm right when I say you're wrong.
00:50:22Why?
00:50:22I hear noise.
00:50:27That's static.
00:50:29It's burglars.
00:50:30Lots of them.
00:50:32When you go back to sleep, we've got to get up early tomorrow afternoon.
00:50:35I'm going downstairs and get those jewels and put them under my pillow.
00:50:45All right.
00:50:46Go ahead.
00:50:47But I remain right here in this nice, comfortable bed.
00:50:50Well, I'm going down.
00:50:54And I'm going with you.
00:50:56What are you putting that hat on for?
00:51:08I might catch cold in my head.
00:51:10Well, that would be something.
00:51:26What are you putting that hat on for?
00:51:42I'm going to put it on for you.
00:51:45Oh, no.
00:51:45I don't know.
00:51:46I don't know.
00:51:48I don't know.
00:51:49I don't know.
00:51:49I don't know.
00:51:51I don't know.
00:51:51Oh, no.
00:51:52Oh, no.
00:51:53Oh, no.
00:51:55Oh, no.
00:51:55Oh.
00:51:56You have to take care of yourself.
00:52:17Be careful, son.
00:52:19I think you damaged that vase.
00:52:22It's Voss adding from Voss.
00:52:24I looked it up this morning.
00:52:25Well, have it your own way.
00:52:27Come on.
00:52:38Stick your hands up.
00:52:41Gee, you scared me.
00:52:43For men, I thought I was a burglar.
00:52:45Keep those hands up.
00:52:46Me too?
00:52:47Yeah, you too.
00:52:49What's the big idea?
00:52:51If you're lucky, you'll read about it in the paper in the morning.
00:52:54We don't take the paper, do we, Addington?
00:52:57Shut up.
00:52:58Shut up.
00:52:59You know, I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:00You know, I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:04You know, I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:09Dave, you've got a cigar.
00:53:10Dave, you've got a cigar.
00:53:11I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:12I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:14Dave, you've got a cigar.
00:53:19Dave, you've got a cigar.
00:53:24I'm smoking too much anyway.
00:53:25I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:26I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:27I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:31Dave, you've got a cigar.
00:53:37I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:38I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:39I don't think it's safe here.
00:53:40I'm smoking too much anyway.
00:53:41Come on, let's get out of here.
00:53:42I think they got me.
00:54:10Where?
00:54:11where? Now you'll have to travel on your stomach. They almost got me that time. They must
00:54:24be firing from the basement. Yeah. They're getting closer. Closer? They're right on our
00:54:34heels. Get around. Hey. What? I got a great idea. Look. Hey. That was great. Where'd
00:55:04you learn that? I came from Davenport. Hey. Get up and reconnoiter. I don't have to. Reconnoiter.
00:55:14Look around. Look around.
00:55:34Boy, that's some slice water. You know, I'm glad I stopped that. That is liable to awaken
00:56:00some of our guests. That's right. Come on. Now, did they get Gansley and Boswell? Get them? No. Say they're two of the toughest guys I ever seen.
00:56:12What do you mean? What do I mean? I mean they're down in the lobby with a machine gun, bumping them off fast than they did in no man's land. Now, listen, Izzy. I'm not going to lose the stuff on the girl on account of those two numbskulls. Now, you go downstairs and don't come back until you've nailed them both. Not me, Blackie. I'm leaving.
00:56:28Swine.
00:56:46Look at that. I'll get it myself.
00:56:51Mother! Black! Young Blackwell's gone downstairs to kill Wilbur. Good.
00:56:55I'm going and tell Robert well nobody's gonna kill my everything without my
00:57:04phone
00:57:25how are we going to get over that safe we'll take the bus
00:57:31I wonder where Wilbur is
00:57:44this is no kind of a stop
00:57:51I know but I have to save Wilbur
00:57:53yes I know you've got to stop inviting bullets in this direction
00:57:56I'm too easy to hit
00:57:58come on
00:58:23come on
00:58:30hey where am I going to ride
00:58:33take the lower bar
00:58:35wait a minute can you run this thing
00:58:39certainly it's the standard shift
00:58:40let's go go
00:58:43good man yeah he's watching things all right
00:58:47good man yeah he's watching things all right
00:58:58you light a match I'll work the combination
00:59:03hey I've only got one man that's not enough
00:59:08hey here's a candle
00:59:11light it
00:59:15now hold it close put it right under my nose
00:59:19what are you so nervous about
00:59:23give me that candle
00:59:25I can't
00:59:28careful you want to mess up the floor
00:59:32what's the matter
00:59:34I've forgotten the combination
00:59:36it's 10 20 30 30 here I'll open it
00:59:40here
00:59:41and hold it closer
00:59:44will you get it here give me it
00:59:47do you want to make yourself sick at your stomach
00:59:49give me that
00:59:54why you crazy
00:59:56give me that you dummy you want to blow the joint up
01:00:10somebody must have turned the gas on
01:00:12oh
01:00:17oh
01:00:19I never felt better in my life
01:00:20how did you see
01:00:21certainly they're safe haven't I been guarding them
01:00:23oh
01:00:24ah
01:00:25the electricity's on
01:00:30looks like they wiped out a whole crime wave
01:00:32pick them up boys
01:00:35I'll have to congratulate you fellas
01:00:37rewarding these crooks will amount to a fortune
01:00:39reward
01:00:40reward
01:00:41yep they've all got a price on their heads
01:00:50I caught this here lady running away with this here box
01:00:53the jewels
01:00:54jewels
01:00:55why duchess
01:00:56would you double cross your old psychic sidekick
01:00:59jewels
01:01:00ha
01:01:01it's the detective's lunch
01:01:05here's another one sheriff just found him under the sofa and he was still kicking
01:01:08if I'm not mistaken you're Buffalo Blackie the smuggler and you've been using the basement of this hotel for a storehouse
01:01:15basement
01:01:16I didn't know we had one
01:01:17come on
01:01:18well I swung
01:01:21can I have Mary now
01:01:28tell me Papa
01:01:29shall we give our little daughter away
01:01:31certainly
01:01:32we'll get another one
01:01:33and another one
01:01:39twelve o'clock in all twelve
01:01:41well
01:01:42yeah
01:01:52yeah
01:01:53look at this
01:01:54you're not sure
01:01:55oh
01:01:56yeah
01:01:57yeah
01:01:58yeah
01:01:59yeah
01:02:00yeah
01:02:01yeah
01:02:02yeah
01:02:03yeah
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