Only Saps Work
You Just Know It's Funny!
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- Crime
- Comedy
Overview
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.
Keywords
- stolen money
- rich snob
- con man
- detective
- robbery
- bank robbery
- cheerful
- hypochondriac
- meet cute
- landlady
- pre-code
- comedy
- attraction
- crook
- bellhop
- simpleton
- former athlete
- comedy routine
- kleptomaniac
- pantry boy
- social error
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 5, 1930
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Anderson Lawler,George Irving,Stuart Erwin,Jack Richardson,Mary Brian,Nora Cecil,George Chandler,Clifford Dempsey,Charley Grapewin,Charlie Halland 6 more
- Director
- Cyril Gardner,Edwin H. Knopf
- Cinematography
- Rex Wimpy
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0021218