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1 form y separately published work icon Officer 666 W. J. Lincoln , ( dir. Fred Niblo ) Australia : J. C. Williamson's Ltd , 1916 6334089 1916 single work film/TV crime humour

One of three films based on the Broadway play by Augustin MacHugh, but the only one made in Australia: the 1914 and the 1920 films by the same name were made in the US.

Like Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, whose production preceded this film's, Officer 666 was made to take advantage of the presence in Australia of American actor-director Fred Niblo.

The film's plot followed a wealthy man who, catching wind of a plot to rob his house while he was holidaying, remains in the district disguised as a policeman.
1 form y separately published work icon Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford W. J. Lincoln , Fred Niblo , ( dir. W. J. Lincoln et. al. )agent Australia : J. C. Williamson's Ltd , 1916 6333739 1916 single work film/TV crime humour

The first of a number of films based on American writer George Randolph Chester's fictional conman, but the only one made in Australia: the 1921 film Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford and the 1931 film New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford were both made in the US.

Set in Iowa, the film follows the adventures of two conmen, who sweep into a small town determined to make quick money through a fake carpet-tack factory and a falsfied real-estate boom, but who end up marrying local girls and settling down.
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