New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford explained

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Director:	Sam Wood
Producer:	Harry Rapf
Starring:	William Haines Jimmy Durante
Cinematography:	Oliver T. Marsh
Editing:	Frank Sullivan
Studio:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributor:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Runtime:	87-96 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

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

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]

Notes and References

News: The Screen; An Artful Swindler. The Divorce Mill. Espionage and Romance. . Mordaunt Hall . October 10, 1931 . The New York Times.