New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931 film
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 American pre-Code crime / romantic comedy film directed by Sam Wood and starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy. The film is based on a series of stories by George Randolph Chester published in Cosmopolitan.
Directed bySam Wood
Written byCharles MacArthur (adaptation)
Based on"The Wallingford Stories"
by George Randolph Chester
by George Randolph Chester
Produced byHarry Rapf
| New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford | |
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| Directed by | Sam Wood |
| Written by | Charles MacArthur (adaptation) |
| Based on | "The Wallingford Stories" by George Randolph Chester |
| Produced by | Harry Rapf |
| Starring | William Haines Jimmy Durante |
| Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
| Edited by | Frank Sullivan |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 87-96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
Cast
- William Haines as Jimmy Wallingford
- Jimmy Durante as Clarence 'Schnozzle'
- Ernest Torrence as Blackie Daw
- Leila Hyams as Dorothy Layton
- Guy Kibbee as Police Sergeant McGonigal
- Hale Hamilton as Charles Harper
- Robert McWade as Horace Tuttle
- Clara Blandick as Mrs Maggie Layton
- Walter Walker as Frank Layton
- Alfred Allen as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
- Henry Armetta as Henry, a Barber (uncredited)
- Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Dalrymple, a Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
- Robert Bolder as Minor Role (uncredited)
- Sidney Bracey as Joe the Waiter (uncredited)
- Allan Cavan as Hotel Cashier (uncredited)
- Sydney Jarvis as Chief of Police Morgan (uncredited)
- Tom Kennedy as Truck Driver (uncredited)
- Edwin Maxwell as Adam Carver the Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Charles R. Moore as Bootblack (uncredited)
- William H. O'Brien as Private Dining Room Waiter (uncredited)
- Joe Sawyer as Willis the Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
- Rolfe Sedan as Barber (uncredited)
- Phillips Smalley as Stockholder (uncredited)
Reception
Mordaunt Hall wrote in The New York Times that "the film affords many a good laugh and most of the ideas are developed quite neatly" and that Haines' performance was "emphatically satisfactory."[1]
