Get That Man (1935)

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.

Director:

Spencer Gordon Bennet

Writers:

Betty Burbridge (screenplay), Betty Burbridge (story)

Stars:

Wallace Ford, Finis Barton, E. Alyn Warren

Cast

Cast overview:
Wallace Ford	...	Jack Kirkland / John Prescott (II)
Finis Barton	...	Diane Prescott
E. Alyn Warren	...	Jay Malone, Private Investigator
Leon Ames	...	Don Clayton / McDonald (as Leon Waycoff)
Lillian Miles	...	Fay Prescott, John Jr.'s Wife
Laura Treadwell	...	Mrs. John Prescott Sr.
William Humphrey	...	Mr. Brownlee (as William Humphries)
Johnstone White	...	Mr. Joyce

Storyline

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.

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Plot Keywords:

inheritance | police detective | fake moustache | badge | low budget film | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 July 1935 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Scott-Bennet Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

67 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

You need a readers guide to keep up with this one.

For beginners,with the aid of a fake moustache, Wallace Ford had a dual and also an AKA role. He played both Jack Kirkland and John Prescott the Second (II), and then posed as John Prescott (II)while playing Jack Kirkland. That led to even more complications when he (the Kirkland character) shows up posing as John the Second and Diane Prescott (Finis Barton), John's step-sister, gets all hot-and-bothered over her long-missing step-brother, which isn't really her step-brother but she doesn't know that. If he had been her half-brother, this might have constituted a dicey situation such as that in "Desert Guns", where the heroine gets all hot-and-bothered over the guy posing as her half-brother but she doesn't know he isn't her half-brother...and her half-brother hasn't even been missing up to that point. After several viewings, the situation that led to Jack posing as John gets more clouded each time. Something to do with John's cheating wife, Fay Prescott (Lillian Miles) and her boyfriend, Don Clayton (Leon Ames), planning to knock off John and then having Jack pose as John in a scheme to beat Diane and her mother, Mrs. John Prescott (I) (Laura Treadwell), out of whatever it is they have that they think John can make a claim on.

It might have been less confusing if the script supervisor hadn't mixed up some pages (or something) or had paid more attention to such details as to which Wallace Ford character had a moustache and which one didn't. In fact, it still isn't for certain that Jack Kirkland wasn't the real John Prescott all the time, and the John Prescott knocked off by his ever-lovin wife and Oil-Can Waycoff was also a fake, but Ever-Lovin' and Oil-Can didn't know that. Hey, I already said it wasn't a plot easy to keep up with. This could be to 1935 Indies what "Miller's Crossing" is to 1990 and "Pulp Fiction" is to 1994 Indies. Relative speaking, we hasten to add.