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[[File:Go_and_get_it.jpg|thumb|215px|A preview poster.]]
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'''Go And Get It '''is a 1920 American silent adventure/horror/comedy film directed by Marshall Neilan and Henry Symonds.
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The plot was about a newspaper owner, Helen Allen (Agnes Ayres) partenering with reporter Kirk Connelly (Pat O'Malley) as she suspects her publisher of being corrupt and plotting with a rival. Meanwhile, violent murders are happening, perpetrated by an ape-man, a gorilla who's had the brain of a brutal criminal transplanted in it by a mad scientist.
'''Go And Get It''' is a 1920 American silent adventure/horror/comedy film directed by Marshall Neilan and Henry Symonds. The plot revolves around the violent murders of an ape-man, a gorilla given the brain of a brutal criminal by a mad scientist.<ref>[http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/2011/07/got-ape.html Hollywood Gorilla Men blog post about the film.] Retrieved 19 Mar '16.</ref>


By its release, the film got many positive reviews, with special mentions to the gorilla character, portrayed by former boxer Bull Montana (who would portray another ape-man in 1925's ''The Lost World'').
The film garnered many positive reviews, particularly lauding former boxer Bull Montana's performance as the ape-man.


It is unknown if copies of the film survive, and only a few promotion posters are available to see, with some production photographs.
It is unknown if any copies of the film exist, and only a few promotion posters and stills have survived.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GoAndGetIt1920.html Page on Silent Era website; status is "unknown".] Retrieved 19 Mar '16.</ref>
 
The movie was remade in 1941 as'' The Monster and The Girl''.


==References==
==References==
 
<references/>
http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/2010/02/originally-posted-02-25-2007-in-my.html Blog about movie gorillas.
 
http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/search/label/Go%20and%20Get%20It%20%281920%29
 
http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com/search/label/Bull%20Montana
 
http://pastebin.com/Bz8hRxZW Proof of lost status
 
http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GoAndGetIt1920.html Page on Silent Era website; status is "unknown".


[[Category:Lost films]]
[[Category:Lost films]]

Revision as of 05:18, 19 March 2016

Go and get it.jpg

A preview poster.

Status: Lost


Go And Get It is a 1920 American silent adventure/horror/comedy film directed by Marshall Neilan and Henry Symonds. The plot revolves around the violent murders of an ape-man, a gorilla given the brain of a brutal criminal by a mad scientist.[1]

The film garnered many positive reviews, particularly lauding former boxer Bull Montana's performance as the ape-man.

It is unknown if any copies of the film exist, and only a few promotion posters and stills have survived.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hollywood Gorilla Men blog post about the film. Retrieved 19 Mar '16.
  2. ↑ Page on Silent Era website; status is "unknown". Retrieved 19 Mar '16.
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