Hook a Crook

Hook a Crook

16 mins | Comedy | Nov. 24, 1955

Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur coat was the thief. They, instead, encounter a gorilla.

Hook a Crook

16 mins | Comedy | Nov. 24, 1955

Hook a Crook
Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne are detectives trying to recover stolen jewels. They see a necklace on a furry arm, and deduce that a man wearing a fur coat was the thief. They, instead, encounter a gorilla.
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Hook a Crook
Directors Jules White
Writers Jules White, Felix Adler

Cast

Joe Besser

as Joe Besser

Jim Hawthorne

as Hawthorne (as hawthorne)

Steve Calvert

as Gorilla (archive footage)

Eddie Baker

as Thief (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barbara Bartay

as Fifi (uncredited)

Lela Bliss

as Mrs. Van Sickle (uncredited)

Dan Blocker

as Gorilla (uncredited)

Ray Corrigan

as Gorilla (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dudley Dickerson

as Janitor (uncredited)

Tom Kennedy

as I. Katchum (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joe Palma

as Thief (archive footage) (uncredited)