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 (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."