Snub in a free-for-all fishing contest, with everybody, including the fish, working against the hero, who finally triumphs..

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The first time I watched Hook, Line and Sinker I expected a disposable one-reeler about pratfalls and piscine pugilism; ninety years later the reel still hasn’t finished unspooling in my skull. There is something alchemical in the way director Gilbert Pratt lets the camera linger on a ripple long enough for it to beco...

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" The first time I watched Hook, Line and Sinker I expected a disposable one-reeler about pratfalls and piscine pugilism; ninety years later the reel still hasn’t finished unspooling in my skull. There is something alchemical in the way director Gilbert Pratt lets the camera linger on a ripple long enough for it to become a metaphor—then pancakes the moment with a custard-pie of absurdity. The film is a haiku written on a water-skimming stone: it counts syllables of sorrow, skips, and vanishes, l..."


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