title: New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
text: # 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."
  
  