Fresh
Hawks transformed Edna Ferber's historical novel into a sprawling adventure of hard-driving masculine will and a tragedy of its erotic limits.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Come and Get It
YOUTH SACRIFICED! ON THE ALTAR OF POWER!
1936 · 1h 39m · PASSED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Howard Hawks
,
William Wyler
,
Richard Rosson
Overview
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Director and cast
- Howard Hawks Director
- William Wyler Director
- Richard Rosson Director
- Edward Arnold as Barney Glasgow
- Joel McCrea as Richard Glasgow
- Frances Farmer as Lotta Morgan / Lotta Bostrom
- Walter Brennan as Swan Bostrom
- Mady Christians as Karie Linbeck
- Mary Nash as Emma Louise Glasgow
- Andrea Leeds as Evvie Glasgow
- Frank Shields as Tony Schwerke
- Edwin Maxwell as Sid LeMaire
- Cecil Cunningham as Josie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Although there is nothing new in the theme, it has been simply and powerfully expressed by a number of admirable performances, and it has been played against an interesting background.
Frank S. Nugent, New York Times
Fresh
The first part of the film, the best, is unmistakably Hawks.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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