Movie: The Sap from Syracuse

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie

Littleton Looney

Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers

Ellen Saunders

Granville Bates
Granville Bates

Sidney Hycross

George Barbier
George Barbier

Senator Powell

Sidney Riggs
Sidney Riggs

Nick Pangolos

Betty Starbuck
Betty Starbuck

Flo Goodrich

Verree Teasdale
Verree Teasdale

Dolly Clark

J. Malcolm Dunn
J. Malcolm Dunn

Captain Barker (uncredited)

Bernard Jukes
Bernard Jukes

Bells (uncredited)

Walter Fenner
Walter Fenner

Henderson (uncredited)

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  • Overview

    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.

  • Release Date

    1930-07-26

  • Average

    4.9

  • Rating:

    2.5 starts
  • Tagline

    AMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER!

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
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