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y separately published work icon Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford : A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer (International) assertion selected work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1907... 1907 Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford : A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford W. J. Lincoln , Fred Niblo , ( dir. W. J. Lincoln et. al. )agent Australia : J. C. Williamson's Ltd , 1916 6333739 1916 single work film/TV crime humour

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.

Notes

  • Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Toronto, Ontario,
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      Canada,
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      Americas,      :       Henry Frowde ,       1907 .
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      • Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford originally appeared in short stories published in Cosmopolitan.
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