Cast
Images
Details
- Original language
- English
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures, Paramount Publix Corp.
- Released
- December 5, 1930
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
282,021 titles · 1,458,721 people in the catalog
Your IP:216.73.216.15· United States
Card payments need an Iranian IP: turn off your VPN before paying.
© 2026 Cinemagram. All rights reserved.
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.
Charley Grapewin
Simeon Tanner
Not rated on Cinemagram yet.
Rate this title
Sign in to rate and reviewNo written reviews yet. Be the first!
