The Son of Wallingford is a 1921 American silent comedy drama film directed by George Randolph Chester and Lillian Josephine Chester and starring Wilfrid North, Tom Gallery and Antrim Short.[1] It is based on George Chester's novel The Son of Wallingford about a confidence trickster, itself inspired by his Cosmopolitan articles and an earlier hit play Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford. It was shot at Vitagraph's Flatbush Studios in Brooklyn. It was released by Vitagraph a couple of months before a Paramount Pictures version of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.
Plot
Cast
- Wilfrid North as J. Rufus Wallingford
- Tom Gallery as Jimmy Wallkingford
- George Webb as Blackie Daw
- Antrim Short as 'Toad' Edward Jessup
- Van Dyke Brooke as Henry Beegoode
- Sidney D'Albrook as Bertram Beegoode
- Andrew Arbuckle as Talbot Curtis
- Bobbie Mack as O.O. Jones
- Walter Rodgers as 'Petrograd' Pete
- Priscilla Bonner as Mary Curtis
- Florence Hart as Mrs. Fannie Wallingford
- Lila Leslie as Bonnie Daw
- Margaret Cullington as Coline Beegoode
Preservation
References
Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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