New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

87-96 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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.

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]

References

External links

• New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford at IMDb
• New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford at the TCM Movie Database
• Synopsis at AllMovie