The Sap from Syracuse

The Sap from Syracuse

AMERICA'S WISEST WISE CRACKER!

NR 1930 · 68 min · ★ 5.5 · 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.

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland · Written by Gertrude Purcell

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