--Come and Get It--
Come and Get It - 1936
Re-released as Roaring Timber
Frances Farmer - Lotta Morgan/Lotta Bostrom
Edward Arnold - Barney Glasgow
Walter Brennan - Swan Bostrom - (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor)
Andrea Leeds - Evvie Glasgow
Mady Christians - Karie
Frank Shields - Tony Schwerke
Producer - Samuel Goldwyn
Directors - Howard Hawks/William Wyler
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Crowded with every requisite for excellent entertainment, this is an indelible landmark in motion picture progress. A cast of new players, supporting Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea, offer such individually superlative performances as to insure for themselves great futures; but purely as a production it is technically fine, beautifully directed, superbly synthesized.
Picturing with graphic detail the significant tempo of 1884 to 1907, the story concerns a clear-minded ambitious lumberman who falls in love with a dance-hall girl. Caught in the need for power, he marries his boss' daughter, whom he doesn't love but who can aid him in his career; many years later, successful and bitter, he meets the honky-tonk belle's lovely daughter and toward her directs the bleak passion of his middle-age.
Edward Arnold is outstandingly good as the ruthless business man who sacrifices personal happiness for achievement; and Frances Farmer, cast in the dual role of the vulgar cabaret singer and her ambitious daughter, is sensationally brilliant.
Against a background of gripping beauty Edna Ferber's bestseller becomes a living reality, with Walter Brennan excitingly authentic as a Swede friend of Arnold's, Joel McCrea good as Arnold's son, and newly discovered Andrea Leeds delightfully refreshing in her small role.
You'll cheer at the log-rolling sequences, at the really great performances of the cast, and the vivid effectiveness of the picture as a whole.
Review featured in Photoplay magazine
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