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Paramount Pictures presents

The Sap from Syracuse

directed by A. Edward Sutherland

“AMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER!”

19301h 8mNRComedy

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Paramount Pictures presents

The Sap from Syracuse

directed by A. Edward Sutherland

“AMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER!”

19301h 8mNRComedy

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§ Synopsis

Comedy · Music · Romance

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.

§ Keywords

what it's about

musical ocean liner based on play or musical

§ Crew

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Director

A. Edward Sutherland

Screenplay

Gertrude Purcell

Cinematography

§ Cast

8 of 14

Jack Oakie

as Littleton Looney

Ginger Rogers

as Ellen Saunders

Granville Bates

Granville Bates

as Sidney Hycross

George Barbier

as Senator Powell

as Nick Pangolos

Betty Starbuck

as Flo Goodrich

Verree Teasdale

Verree Teasdale

J. Malcolm Dunn

as Captain Barker (uncredited)

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