Only Saps Work (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.
Comedy, Crime
Cast
- Leon Errol — James Wilson
- Richard Arlen — Larry Payne
- Mary Brian — Barbara Tanner
- Stuart Erwin — Oscar
- Anderson Lawler — Horace Baldwin
- Charley Grapewin — Simeon Tanner
- Clarence Burton — Sergeant Burns (uncredited)
- Nora Cecil — Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
- George Chandler — Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- G. Pat Collins — Rafferty (uncredited)
- Clifford Dempsey — Detective Smith (uncredited)
- Charles Giblyn — Dr. Jasper (uncredited)
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