Go and Get It
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Directed by | Marshall Neilan Henry Roberts Symonds |
Written by | Marion Fairfax |
Starring | Pat O'Malley Wesley Barry Agnes Ayres |
Production company | Marshall Neilan Productions |
Distributed by | First National Exhibitors' Circuit |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent film (English intertitles) |
Go and Get It is a 1920 American silent
Actor Bull Montana (a former professional wrestler) played Ferry, the Ape Creature, in the film. He later went on to play the ape-man in the 1925 Willis H. O'Brien classic The Lost World, which was also written by Marion Fairfax and starred Noah Beery's actor brother Wallace Beery.[5]
Plot
Helen Allen (Agnes Ayres) inherits her deceased father's newspaper, but someone is trying to sabotage the business. She gets a job at the company under a false name, so that she can detect exactly who is trying to ruin her. She winds up instead investigating a number of gruesome murders with the help of a reporter named Kirk Connelly (Pat O'Malley).
One of the victims was a scientist named Dr. Ord (Noah Beery). Helen learns that Dr. Ord had been involved in an experiment in which he transplanted the brain of a criminal into the body of a gorilla. The beast turned on him and then went on a killing spree, hunting down and murdering all of his old enemies. In the end, Helen also finds out who it was who was trying to ruin her newspaper.
Cast
- Pat O'Malley as Kirk Connelly
- Wesley Barry as Dinty
- Agnes Ayres as Helen Allen
- J. Barney Sherry as 'Shut the Door' Gordon
- Charles Hill Mailes as J.L. Rich
- Noah Beery Sr.as Dr. Ord
- Bull Montana as Ferry the ape creature
- Walter Long as Jim Hogan
- Lydia Yeamans Titus as Lilly Doody
- George Dromgold as Thomas Hickson
- Edward Cooper as W.W. Crocker
- Charles West as Slim Hogan
- Ring Lardner
- Irvin S. Cobb
- Arthur Brisbane
Preservation
The film was considered a lost film for decades.[6][7] A print was discovered at the Cineteca Italiana film archive in Italy.[8]
References
- ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ "Go and Get It". afi.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "Go and Get It". AllMovie. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "Go and Get It". TCM.com. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ "Weird and Wonderful Movies That You'll Never Get to See". io9.gizmodo.com. January 25, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
- ^ Go and Get It at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Go and Get It
External links
- Go and Get It at IMDb
- allmovie.com