Only Saps Work (1930) DVD-R

Starring Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin, Charley
Grapewin, George Irving
Directed by Cyril Gardner, Edwin H. Knopf

Print: black/white
Runtime: 77 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

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.