Go and Get It is a 1920 American silent comedy-drama mystery film directed by Marshall Neilan and Henry Roberts Symonds and written by Marion Fairfax. The film stars Pat O'Malley, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery Sr. and Agnes Ayres. The cinematographer was David Kesson.[1] The film was released on July 18, 1920 by First National Exhibitors' Circuit.[2][3][4]

Go and Get It
Advertising for Go and Get It on pages 22 and 23 of the Exhibitors Herald (August 1920).
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
Release date	July 18, 1920 (1920-07-18)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film (English intertitles)

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
• Samuel G. Blythe
• Myles Lasker
• Ring Lardner
• Irvin S. Cobb
• Arthur Brisbane
• Robert Edgren
• Fred L. Wilson

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

External links

• Go and Get It at IMDb

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