New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

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
Henry Armetta as Henry, a Barber
Lucy Beaumont as Mrs. Dalrymple, a Cleaning Lady
Robert Bolder as Minor Role
Sidney Bracey as Joe the Waiter
Allan Cavan as Hotel Cashier
Sydney Jarvis as Chief of Police Morgan
Tom Kennedy as Truck Driver
Edwin Maxwell as Adam Carver the Hotel Manager
Charles R. Moore as Bootblack
William H. O'Brien as Private Dining Room Waiter
Joe Sawyer as Willis the Newspaper Reporter
Rolfe Sedan as Barber
Phillips Smalley as Stockholder

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."