The Sap from Syracuse
“AMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER!”
1930•NR•1h 8m•5.5•Released
ComedyMusicRomance
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks trying to get their hands on her lucrative nickel mine.
Director
A. Edward Sutherland
Writer
Gertrude Purcell
Languages
English
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Jack Oakie
Littleton Looney
Ginger Rogers
Ellen Saunders
Granville Bates
Sidney Hycross
George Barbier
Senator Powell
Sidney Riggs
Nick Pangolos
Betty Starbuck
Flo Goodrich
Verree Teasdale
Dolly Clark
J. Malcolm Dunn
Captain Barker (uncredited)
Bernard Jukes
Bells (uncredited)
Walter Fenner
Henderson (uncredited)
Jack Daley
Hopkins (uncredited)
Jean Del Val
Pierre Bouvet (uncredited)
George Humbert
Macedonian Waiter (uncredited)
Kathryn Reese
(uncredited)
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