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5.5

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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

  • Richard Arlen

  • Mary Brian

  • Stuart Erwin

  • Anderson Lawler

  • Charley Grapewin

  • Clarence Burton

  • Nora Cecil

  • George Chandler

  • G. Pat Collins

  • Clifford Dempsey

  • Charles Giblyn

  • Charlie Hall

  • George Irving

  • Fred Kelsey

  • Jack Richardson

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