Comedy Crime
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.
Directed by
Edwin H. Knopf, Cyril Gardner
Clarence Burton
Sergeant Burns (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
Simeon Tanner
George Chandler
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Mary Brian
Barbara Tanner
Richard Arlen
Larry Payne
Charlie Hall
Waiter (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Murphy (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
Stuart Erwin
Oscar
George Irving
Dr. White (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
Rafferty (uncredited)
Jack Richardson
Chef (uncredited)
Leon Errol
James Wilson
Anderson Lawler
Horace Baldwin
Clifford Dempsey
Detective Smith (uncredited)

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