Con-men Wallingford and Chester decide to pull the money from a small town by posing as business men looking for an opportunity to invest. With the town's money they build a factory to produce carpet tacks.


The flicker of a carbon-arc projector, the hush of an orchestra settling into ragtime—Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford emerges from 1921 like a freshly-minted coin still warm from the press. Paramount’s marketers sold it as breezy farce; in truth, it is a pocket-sized Vanity Fair etched onto nitrate, a morality play that r...

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" The flicker of a carbon-arc projector, the hush of an orchestra settling into ragtime—Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford emerges from 1921 like a freshly-minted coin still warm from the press. Paramount’s marketers sold it as breezy farce; in truth, it is a pocket-sized Vanity Fair etched onto nitrate, a morality play that refuses to moralize, a capitalist commedia dell’arte performed in the key of jaunty despair. Plot Refractions Instead of dusty exposition, the film tosses us into a passenger-trai..."
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