Only Saps Work (1930)
You Just Know It's Funny!
77 min
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.
- Release date
- December 5, 1930
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Leon Errol as James Wilson
- Richard Arlen as Lawrence Payne
- Mary Brian as Barbara Tanner
- Stuart Erwin as Oscar
- Anderson Lawler as Horace Baldwin
- Charley Grapewin as Simeon Tanner
- George Irving as Dr. White
- Nora Cecil as Mrs. Partridge
- Charles Giblyn as Dr. Jasper
- Fred Kelsey as Murphy
Crew
- Cyril Gardner · Director
- Edwin H. Knopf · Director
- Owen Davis · Writer
- Percy Heath · Writer
- Sam Mintz · Writer
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz · Writer
- Rex Wimpy · Cinematographer
- Edward Dmytryk · Editor