Only Saps Work (1930)
1h 17m
Running Time
December 5, 1930Release Date
Only Saps Work (1930)
1h 17m
Running Time
December 5, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts Errol as James Wilson, a kleptomaniac who starts with picking pockets and ends up robbing a bank. Wilson's friend Lawrence Payne (Richard Arlen) inadvertently aids our hero during one of his heists, ending up in deep doo-doo with the law. Before Wilson is able to extricate Payne from his dilemma for the sake of heroine Barbara Tanner (Mary Brian), he pauses long enough to pose as a private eye -- and even gives bellboy Oscar (Stu Erwin) tips on how to spot a crook! If only all of Leon Errol's feature films had been as consistently hilarious as Only Saps Work.
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Cast & Crew.
Leon Errol
James Wilson
Richard Arlen
Lawrence Payne
Mary Brian
Barbara Tanner
Charley Grapewin
Simeon Tanner
Stuart Erwin
Oscar
Anderson Lawler
Horace Baldwin
Cyril Gardner
Director
Fred Kelsey
Murphy
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Wiki.
Only Saps Work is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Cyril Gardner and Edwin H. Knopf and written by Owen Davis, Percy Heath, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz. The film stars Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin, Anderson Lawler, Charley Grapewin and George Irving. The film was released on December 6, 1930, by Paramount Pictures.