Only Saps Work

Only Saps Work

77 mins | Comedy | Dec. 5, 1930

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.

Only Saps Work

77 mins | Comedy | Dec. 5, 1930

Only Saps Work
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.
Producers Paramount
Original title Only Saps Work
Directors Cyril Gardner, Edwin H. Knopf
Writers

Cast

Leon Errol

as James Wilson

Richard Arlen

as Lawrence Payne

Mary Brian

as Barbara Tanner

Stuart Erwin

as Oscar

Charley Grapewin

as Simeon Tanner

Anderson Lawler

as Horace Baldwin

Fred Kelsey

as Murphy

Nora Cecil

as Mrs. Partridge

George Irving

as Dr. White

George Chandler

as Elevator Operator