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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
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Wikipedia article
'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'.
Cast (in credits order)
*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."
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