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Advertisement (part of a banner advertisement also advertising Her Triumph), Evening News, 3 February 1916, p.1

form y Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford single work film/TV crime humour

Adaptation of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford : A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer George Randolph Chester , 1907 selected work short story

Authors:agent W. J. Lincoln , Fred Niblo .

Issue Details: First known date: 1916... 1916 Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford

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The first of a number of films based on American writer George Randolph Chester's fictional conman, but the only one made in Australia: the 1921 film Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford and the 1931 film New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford were both made in the US.

Set in Iowa, the film follows the adventures of two conmen, who sweep into a small town determined to make quick money through a fake carpet-tack factory and a falsfied real-estate boom, but who end up marrying local girls and settling down.

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