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Come And Get It

1936, Movie, NR, 99 mins

Come And Get It: Review

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Edward Arnold gives a powerhouse performance here as a brawling, ambitious, money-hungry Wisconsin lumber tycoon who rejects Frances Farmer's love to exercise his avarice. When he later meets the daughter of the woman he abandoned (also played by Farmer), he tries to win her heart, but he loses it to his own son, Joel McCrea. Walter Brennan acts as a coalescing force in the film; he is both a close friend to Arnold and husband to the woman Arnold left in the lurch. Arnold does a great job in his role as a villain who has enough of a heart to realize that he has misspent his life and to attempt some atonement. As the mother, Farmer is rough and low-voiced, moving her big-boned body about awkwardly; as the daughter she is more ladylike and soft-spoken (and speaks in a higher pitch to differentiate the roles). She is fascinating to watch in her two characters, even singing "Aura Lee" in two voices, first as the mother and later as the daughter. McCrea is miscast in a part that is painfully brief and unrewarding; Brennan won an Oscar for his work as the sentimentally crude Swan Bostrom. William Wyler directed some scenes before Howard Hawks took over, and Richard Rosson is credited by most sources as the director of the logging scenes, shot in semidocumentary style. (The tuna fishing scenes in TIGER SHARK, 1932, also directed by Hawks and Rosson, were filmed similarly.) Unfortunately, while this movie has many great scenes, it is also overlong and often bogs down. leave a comment
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