Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford is a 1916 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Fred Niblo

Fred Niblo

Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.-Biography:He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg...

. It was Niblo's debut film as a director - he was touring Australia in the play for J.C. Williamson Ltd and was signed to repeat the role on film. Writer W.J. Lincoln was hired to direct but had to pull out because of his alcoholism and Niblo stepped in. It was also the first film of his future wife Enid Bennett

Enid Bennett

-Career:Born in York, Western Australia, Bennett started her film acting career in 1916, first starring in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with two other films that same year...

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Cast

• Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo
  Fred Niblo was an American pioneer film actor, director and producer.-Biography:He was born Frederick Liedtke in York, Nebraska, to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg...
  
   - J.Rufus Wallingford
• Henry Carson Clarke - Blackie
• Enid Bennett
  Enid Bennett
  -Career:Born in York, Western Australia, Bennett started her film acting career in 1916, first starring in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with two other films that same year...
  
   - Fanny
• Eddie Lamb
• Pirie Bush
• Sydney Stirling
• Charles Clary
• Kathryn Williams
• Max Figman
• Burt McIntosh

External links

• Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at National Film and Sound Archive
  National Film and Sound Archive
  The National Film and Sound Archive is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of audiovisual materials and related items...