Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

hyped garbage

Disturbing yet enthralling

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This is from back when movies were more about script and story line, when movies were movies. Classic romantic little guy against rich big guy and the girl in the middle. Haines is a reporter who believes that's powerful rich guy is not on the up and up, illegally profiting off others. Very cute movie and decent quality given its age.

"Go-Get 'Em, Haines" is one of the classical early crime movies. In black and white, it tells us the story of a newspaper agent, who accidentally enters an ocean liner and becomes witness of a murder, he afterwards tries to solve.The film includes all the elements you's expect from such a title. You have the lead character as a hero, who is both smart and eloquent. You have different characters with a motive, that make it hard to guess, who the actual murderer is. And of course you have the love story between the reporter and a beautiful young lady, that finds its climax in a kiss and a marriage. You even have the humorous sidekick, who is, as always, more disturbing than funny. On one hand you could thus say, that this is a rather standardized movie, on the other hand it still has an interesting plot and doesn't do any grave mistakes.All in all I had fun watching this title. It is surely not a masterpiece or anything alike but it is a nice little story, depicted in a well-known way. If you like those early crime movies, this could be a thing for you.

William Boyd took a break from Hopalong Cassidy to do this B movie mystery for Republic Pictures in which he plays an investigative reporter hot on the trail of a Samuel Insull like utility magnate who is fleeing and absconding with a whole lot of his investor's money.The culprit Lee Shumway takes a passenger liner bound for Europe and Boyd follows him on board and sails with him. During an amateur theatrical production on shipboard someone slips real bullets into a gun and Shumway is shot dead. There are a host of suspects as a whole lot of people lost money investing with the dead magnate.Go Get 'Em Haines which sounds like a rousing sports drama instead of a murder mystery is a nicely paced mystery which we have to give some allowances for as it is the product of a B film studio. Herbert J. Yates didn't exactly bust the budget for this one, but Boyd does nicely in the role.Alas though for his career and for better or worse he was Hopalong Cassidy and the public wasn't going to accept at this point as anything else.

Movie almost split in 3 it seems, the first almost is a comedy of manners, you know, those 1930's things with lots of characters, really no plot, and just sort of glides along. SO a whole whack of people get on a boat, a banker (or is it?) who has swindled a lot of money, an actress, her brother and other people are also on board too. Oops, and a reporter, who is trying to uncover the banker's saga. During the voyage, it is suggested that some of the passengers put on a show, which they do. This leads up to the 2nd part of the movie, where the musical takes place, and it's just nothing short of bizarre. It leads to a murder mystery play, where the banker is a last minute replacement for one of the actors. Anyways, the banker's character gets shot in the play - only of course SOMEONE has switched the guns and he's really dead! So then the third part comes up.. who did it? The captain and the reporter lead the inquest to find out the dirty secret! Honestly, I wasn't really absorbed in this movie at all, it wasn't really interesting, musical or suspenseful. The only weird thing that captivated me, was the very strange hair the reporter had, which looked like a sort of grayish blonde thing.