Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

70 mins | Dec. 4, 1921

Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

70 mins | Dec. 4, 1921

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
Producers Cosmopolitan Productions, Paramount Pictures
Original title Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Directors Frank Borzage
Writers George Randolph Chester, George M. Cohan, Luther Reed

Cast

Sam Hardy

as J. Rufus Wallingford

Norman Kerry

as 'Blackie' Daw

Doris Kenyon

as Fannie Jasper

Diana Allen

as Gertrude Dempsey

Edgar Nelson

as Eddie Lamb

Billie Dove

as Dorothy Wells

Mac Barnes

as Andrea Dempsey

William T. Hayes

as G. W. Battles

Horace James

as Timothy Battles

John Woodford

as Mr. Wells

Mrs. Charles Willard

as Mrs. Dempsey

Donald Keith

as Harkins

William Carr

as Quigg

William Robyns

as Abe Gunther

Theodore Westman Jr.

as the bellboy

Patterson Dial

as Bessie

Jerry Sinclair

as Judge Hampton

Benny One

as Wallingford’s valet