Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Frank Borzage
Sam Hardy
Norman Kerry
Doris Kenyon
Diana Allen
Edgar Nelson
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Synopsis
"Blackie" Daw, with but a few dollars in his pocket, arrives in Battlesburg, Iowa, and announces that the celebrated capitalist J. Rufus Wallingford will shortly arrive in search of a good investment. With the help of the town's money, they arrange to erect a manufacturing plant but cannot decide on the article to be made until Wallingford hits upon a covered carpet tack--a device that attracts numerous investors. The stockholders become suspicious, but Wallingford convinces them he is straight, and he initiates a large real estate boom. The pair are about to skip town with their fortune when a financier buys out Wallingford's interest in a projected traction operation, and Eddie Lamb, a local promoter for the company, reports an immense sale of carpet tacks. Wallingford and Blackie find themselves honestly rich and happily married--Wallingford to Fannie Jasper, his stenographer, and Blackie to Dorothy Wells, a daughter of a respectable citizen.
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Director
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Frank Borzage
Cast
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Sam Hardy
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Norman Kerry
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Doris Kenyon
Diana Allen
Edgar Nelson
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Billie Dove
Mac Barnes
William T. Hayes
Horace James
John Woodford
Mrs. Charles Willard
Eugene Keith
William Carr
William Robyns
Theodore Westman Jr.
Patterson Dial
Jerry Sinclair
Benny One
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Film Details
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