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The Sap from Syracuse
“AMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER!”
5.5 / 10• 1930• 1h 8m•NR• English
ComedyMusicRomance
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Jack Oakie
Littleton Looney
Lead
Ginger Rogers
Ellen Saunders
Granville Bates
Sidney Hycross
George Barbier
Senator Powell
SR
Sidney Riggs
Nick Pangolos
Betty Starbuck
Flo Goodrich
Verree Teasdale
Dolly Clark
JM
J. Malcolm Dunn
Captain Barker (uncredited)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. A. Edward Sutherland's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Sap from Syracuse is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
