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.
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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 |
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]