THE SAP FROM SYRACUSE.

Littleton Looney, a crane driver, inherits $18,000 from his uncle. He decides to fulfill his dream and go to Europe. On the ship before it departs, one of the pranksters convince Senator Powell, another passenger, that Looney is Vanderhoff, a famous engineer, traveling incognito. Also aboard is Ellen Saunders, who has 90 days to put some nickel mines in Macedonia into operation, despite not knowing anything about mining. She rejects his lowball offer for property worth "over a million"

Credits

Cast
Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers
Complete catalog record
THE SAP FROM SYRACUSE. 1930. 6,108 ft., sd. Based on the play by John Wray, Jack O'Donnell and John Hayden. Credits: Director, A. Edward Sutherland; screenplay, Gertrude Purcell. Paramount Publix Corp.; 28Jul30; LP1446.

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