The Go Getter (1937 film)

The Go Getter is a 1937 American romantic drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring George Brent, Anita Louise, and Charles Winninger.

He and Skinner decide to give Bill the hardest task they can think of: selling a half million feet of unwanted skunk spruce Cappy bought years ago as a favor to a friend.

Not only does Bill sell all of the spruce, he also generates orders for all of the lumber the company has and more, all in a single business trip across the western United States, forcing Cappy to send him to Seattle to buy the shortfall from a hard-negotiating competitor.

He gives Bill instructions to buy it whatever the cost and bring it to him at the railway station by eight o'clock.

Cappy and Skinner have pre-arranged all sorts of obstacles to make the task impossible, but Bill overcomes them all, and by hocking Margaret's ring to help pay the $1000 price of the vase and persuading a Navy pilot friend (on his honeymoon night, no less) to fly him ahead of the already departed train, he succeeds.

Bill negotiates an end to the strike, and Cappy decides to send Skinner to Shanghai instead.

Ann Ross wrote in a short review in Maclean's magazine that "Charles Winninger’s energetic performance as Cappy keeps things moving".