646f9e108c Richard Talmadge had started offa stuntman and made a big splash in the Thanhauser serial &quot;The Million Dollar Mystery&quot; where his daredevil stunts got him noticed. By the end of the silents he had a high reputationa stuntman and producer of solid action films but his soft, high pitched, slightly accented voice (he was from Munich) made him yet another talkie casualty. He kept up his stunt work and production company but now it was strictly small time and his films were released on a state&#39;s rights basis. In fact the death defying stunts are the best part of &quot;Get That Girl&quot; which also starred Shirley Grey, a pretty, sensitive actress whose career just didn&#39;t take off - she in turn had to compete with sultry Geneva MitchellNedra, nymphomaniac wife of mad scientist Dr. Tito.<br/><br/>Grey plays Ruth Dale who is pursued onto the train by three men (one dresseda woman!!) and she seems to think one of them is<br/><br/>tractor salesman Dick (Talmadge) who has persistently tried to be friendly with her but is tricked into making a disturbance and then thrown off the train. It&#39;s the old story, Ruth is an heiress and the three men are after her inheritance.<br/><br/>She is taken to an old sanitarium (followed closely by Dick) that is being runa cover for oddball experiments. Drug addicted Doctor Tito (&quot;you know what that stuff does to you&quot;) is experimenting with trying to turn women into mannequins - there are a few &quot;unfortunate mistakes&quot; lying around. There is one unexplained plot line. The old gardener brings forth a scream of recognition in Nedra, it is obvious that they know each other but that is not explained and later on the same elderly gentleman seems fascinated with Ruth and tries to help her escape but, again, that plot line is dropped and never explained!! Producer: Richard Talmadge. Not copyrighted 1932 by Richard Talmadge Productions, Inc. No New York opening. U.S. release through Mercury Pictures: 15 May 1932. 67 minutes.<br/><br/>SYNOPSIS: A tractor salesman rescues an heiress from the clutches of kidnappers, who were holding her prisoner at a sinister sanatorium run by sadistic Dr. Sandro.<br/><br/>COMMENT: Producer Dick Talmadge gives himself plenty of opportunities to demonstrate his acrobatic and stunting skills in this nonsensical story, set almost wholly on a speeding train and in a mad asylum. Whilst the plot is full of action, neither director nor writer do much to give it any atmosphere. The characters are underdeveloped, and the story comes to an abrupt conclusion. <br/><br/>With a little ingenuity, the asylum could have been turned into a more menacing house of horrors. The blue-tinted photography is certainly most pleasing, but it seems too warm and sunny for the set-piece old mansion full of hidden corridors, laboratory victims and torture chambers. <br/><br/>Nonetheless, Shirley Grey makes an attractively vulnerable heroine, though lacking the glamour and charisma that sensuous Geneva Mitchell brings to her reluctant villainess. Talmadge himself is naively personable. His voice, an American-accented light tenor, is said to be dubbed. Maybe, maybe not?
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