Only Saps Work
        RELEASED • 1930 • COMEDY • CRIME
        Original
movie
            
            
                Rating
2
            
            
                Language
English
            
            
                Runtime
77m
            
            
            
                Popularity
Trending Down
            
        
        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.
            
        
        
    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)
                    
                
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