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Come and Get It (1936)
Directors: Howard Hawks, William Wyler
Writers: Edna Ferber (novel), Jane Murfin (screenplay)
Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan
Genre: Drama
A greedy lumber-baron (Edward Arnold) is cutting down forest at an alarming rate and without replanting. He only cares about one thing power and money...OK that's two things. He falls in love with a good heartened saloon girl (Frances Farmer) but ditches her after their engagement, so that he can marry the daughter of the richest lumber man in the state. This way he becomes his partner. The problem is he loves the saloon girl and not his new wife. Years go by and he has a upstart son (Joel McCrea) who wants better longing practices.
Meanwhile dad falls in love with the very young daughter of the saloon girl who married his best friend (Walter Brennan) Wow! talk about a soap opera, but then again this is based on the book by the queen of epic-sprawling novels Edna Ferber. Who also wrote the novel Giant.
This movie had a troubled production. Samuel Goldwyn agreed to shoot the movie as written in Edna Ferber's 1935 novel. That novel harshly criticized modern logging practices that were denuding the land without reseeding the forest. The original director was Howard Hawks, who during Samuel Goldwyn's time in the hospital turned the movie into a love triangle. Goldwyn was so pissed that he fired Hawks and replaced him with William Wyler and they re-shot a third of the movie.
As it turned out the film got a face lift with lots of stock footage of logging operations that have to be seen to believe! Especially the giant old growth trees that slide down a water slide on a huge mountain side and then shoot into the water below. It's pretty cool and the logging stuff was my favorite part.
Original Goldwyn wanted Spencer Tracy to be loaned to them but MGM would have none of that. So instead we get an odd leading man in Edward Arnold, who mostly played character actors. It's kind of hard to see him in a romantic lead with the lovely Frances Farmer. I think a young Spencer Tracy would have been much better in the role.
Come and Get It (1936)
Writers: Edna Ferber (novel), Jane Murfin (screenplay)
Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan
Genre: Drama
A greedy lumber-baron (Edward Arnold) is cutting down forest at an alarming rate and without replanting. He only cares about one thing power and money...OK that's two things. He falls in love with a good heartened saloon girl (Frances Farmer) but ditches her after their engagement, so that he can marry the daughter of the richest lumber man in the state. This way he becomes his partner. The problem is he loves the saloon girl and not his new wife. Years go by and he has a upstart son (Joel McCrea) who wants better longing practices.
Meanwhile dad falls in love with the very young daughter of the saloon girl who married his best friend (Walter Brennan) Wow! talk about a soap opera, but then again this is based on the book by the queen of epic-sprawling novels Edna Ferber. Who also wrote the novel Giant.
This movie had a troubled production. Samuel Goldwyn agreed to shoot the movie as written in Edna Ferber's 1935 novel. That novel harshly criticized modern logging practices that were denuding the land without reseeding the forest. The original director was Howard Hawks, who during Samuel Goldwyn's time in the hospital turned the movie into a love triangle. Goldwyn was so pissed that he fired Hawks and replaced him with William Wyler and they re-shot a third of the movie.
As it turned out the film got a face lift with lots of stock footage of logging operations that have to be seen to believe! Especially the giant old growth trees that slide down a water slide on a huge mountain side and then shoot into the water below. It's pretty cool and the logging stuff was my favorite part.
Original Goldwyn wanted Spencer Tracy to be loaned to them but MGM would have none of that. So instead we get an odd leading man in Edward Arnold, who mostly played character actors. It's kind of hard to see him in a romantic lead with the lovely Frances Farmer. I think a young Spencer Tracy would have been much better in the role.
I mainly watched this to see Frances Farmer and she's prominently featured as both Lotta the saloon girl and Lotta's daughter also named Lotta....odd I know!
This is a public domain movie and available on Youtube and it's a good copy too!
Full Movie of Come and Get It (1936)
This is a public domain movie and available on Youtube and it's a good copy too!
Full Movie of Come and Get It (1936)