Only Saps Work (1930)
1930 · Feature film · 77 min · dir. Cyril Gardner
You Just Know It's Funny!
- Comedy
- Crime
Synopsis
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…
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Details
- Director
- Cyril Gardner
- Writer
- Percy Heath
- Cinematography
- Rex Wimpy
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Paramount Publix Corp.
- Released
- 1930-12-05
- Running time
- 77 minutes
Cast & crew
Cyril Gardner Director
Leon Errol
Richard Arlen
Mary Brian
Stuart Erwin
Anderson Lawler
Charley Grapewin
Clarence Burton
Nora Cecil
