Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

donwyatt 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.

JohnHowardReid Presented by Winchester Pictures. (An Alpha DVD). Copyright 29 June 1936 by Republic Pictures Corp. No New York opening. U.S. release: 22 October 1936. 7 reels. 65 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Although described by the TV Feature Film Source Book as an "action western", this is not a western at all. Instead, Boyd plays a would-be hot-shot newspaper reporter on the trail of an absconding utilities chief/thief.NOTES: Final screen appearance of Bill Boyd in a role other than Hopalong Cassidy. In fact, Boyd had already starred in no less than seven "Hoppy" entries before Haines was released. COMMENT: It must have been no less of a surprise to contemporary audiences to find Bill Boyd playing a non-Hoppy role, as it is to us. Especially as he seems uncomfortable in the part. True, he does improve noticeably as the plot progresses, but this only serves to discomfort the audience even further. For the script turns out to be an odd - but surprisingly agreeable - mixture of musical comedy, light romance and murder mystery. As often as not, Boyd is the fall guy. But after the opening reel or two, he does handle the comic twists, the romantic banter and the eager helper rather charismatically. However, the title is a bit of a misnomer. Haines is a go-getter chiefly in his own imagination. In fact, he soon drops his brash manner and reveals himself to be a bit of a softie at heart. Boyd's rabid fans will undoubtedly be disappointed that he has only one real spurt of action - but it's an exciting little chase with Bill doing his own stunt-work. Another, if minor, unsettling feature for Hoppy fans is the somewhat less than flattering way our hero is presented and photographed. It's Eleanor Hunt (from Whoopee (1930) who captures all the best lighting and angles. True, despite her third billing, she has the most colorful part, plus two or three songs - which she handles delightfully - quite putting Miss Terry in the shade. LeRoy Mason plays the half-and-half heavy with just the right touch of heartiness, whilst Lloyd Ingraham as the seemingly too easily persuaded captain, Clarence Geldert as a ripe old avuncular actor, Louis Natheaux as a most untrustworthily nosy steward, Jimmy Aubrey as an invariably put-upon but amiable drunk, and Lee Shumway as the absconding financier make the most of the many golden opportunities the well-paced, neatly-drawn script hands them. Hilliard is a conventional editor, but his role is happily small. Most of the film was photographed on board a real ship, with plenty of passengers milling around as extras. This certainly gives production values a considerable boost. Director Sam Newfield has actually risen to the occasion, turning in such a remarkably polished job (at least by his extremely humble standards) that we have no hesitation in judging Go-Get-'Em Haines as the best of his output - an output so prolific he was forced to use no less than two pseudonyms ("Sherman Scott" and "Peter Stewart") to disguise his omni-presence.

Leofwine_draca Despite the unusual title, GO-GET-'EM, HAINES is in fact a murder mystery set on board an ocean liner for most of its running time. It's notable for starring William Boyd, a later popular TV actor, playing the titular reporter who follows a rich businessman on board a cruise in the hopes of sniffing out a story. Well, he certainly gets one when somebody turns up dead...Despite Boyd's likable lead performance, this film is generally unremarkable and feels surprisingly slow given the extra-short running time. Many of the dialogue scenes are quite padded and the more suspenseful and exciting aspects of the narrative are played down rather than up. It's a pity, as in the right hands this could have been a tight little movie along the lines of PURSUIT TO ALGIERS.

Spuzzlightyear 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.