Go And Get It is a relatively unknown feature length horror spoof from 1920. It's plot, like so many involving science fiction plots in the 1910's and 1920's, involves a gorilla or ape man. It was from Marshall Neilan Productions and Neilan was a co-director, along with Henry Robert Symonds. Agnes Ayers and Pat O'Malley are essentially the leads in the film, one as Helen Allen who has inherited a troubled newspaper from her father, and as Kirk Connelly an investigative reporter. There is a strong mystery element in the plot that involves both a string of unsolved murders and an attempt to ruin the Allen family business by person or persons unknown. The two team up to investigate and find that a mad scientist Dr. Ord (Noah Beery) has transplanted the brain of a criminal into the head of an ape (as one does). The hybrid creature then goes on rampage spree in much the same fashion as the killer in Poe's Rue Morgue. Former wrestler Bull Montana donned the gorilla/ape suit for shoot. The film ran/runs for an hour and ten minutes, and was remade in 1941 as The Monster and the Girl starring Ellen Drew and Robert Paige. For decades Go and Get It was listed as lost, when the Cineteca Italiana in Milan announced that they are a discovered a copy in their archive.
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| Print ad from the August 14, 1920 edition of Exhibitors Herald (Public Domain, retrieved from Wikipedia) |
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