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...
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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. Stockholders suspect this as a fraud, but Wallingford can convince them. Suddenly there is a offer of somebody to buy them out....
Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
During a showing of this film on 28 January 1922, the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington, DC, collapsed under the weight of 30 inches of snow. The collapse killed 98 people and injured 133.
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