Come & Get It
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Movie Reviews of Come & Get It
Movie Review: Lost Love at a Price
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie classic starring Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan. This is where two old friends love the same woman. One marries for riches and prominence the other marries the woman they both love. Times passes and now a daughter is born who looks exactly like his old flame. Edward Arnold tries to court her but his son falls for her. What will be the outcome? Check it out you'll enjoy this one. Also, Walter Brennan gives a wonderful performance.
I hope that they will release on dvd Scudda Who Scudda Hey with Walter Brennan, Jeanne Crain and Lon McAllister anybody listening on this I sure hope so.
Movie Review: I Came and Got It
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie and was so thrilled Amazon.com had it online on DVD. Frances Farmer shone so brightly in this film as did Edward Arnold and Walter Brennen. For film buffs this is a keeper and a must. Thank you Amazon.com.Movie Review: Frances Farmer's greatest performance/s
Summary: 4 Stars
Another typical Edna Ferber story, with it's multi-generation characters and large doses of romance and fate. COME AND GET IT is mainly notable for starring Frances Farmer in dual roles, plus fine turns from Edward Arnold and Joel McCrea.
The setting is the logging community in Wisconsin. Barney Glasgow (Edward Arnold) falls in love with gold-hearted saloon singer Lotta Morgan (Frances Farmer) but jilts her and instead marries into a rich and powerful family. Many years later, Barney returns to discover Lotta--long dead--has a daughter that looks exactly like her, Lotta Bostrum (also played by Farmer). Harbouring a strong infatuation for the younger Lotta, Barney's emotional turmoil is further compounded by his son Richard (Joel McCrea), who begins falling for her as well.
COME AND GET IT is a finely-crafted romantic drama, and Frances Farmer gives a splendid performance as both incarnations of Lotta (simply by changing wigs and voice pattern). Edward Arnold does a great job at conveying Barney's immense feelings of guilt at having left the only good thing in his life.
In her very brief screen career, Frances Farmer considered COME AND GET IT as her best movie performance. And her pride is justified. Without a strong Lotta at it's core, this would be just another forgettable "weepie" from the mid-1930s, but Farmer's performance turns COME AND GET IT into an event.
This film only earned two Academy Award nominations ('Best Supporting Actor' for Walter Brennan, and 'Best Film Editing' for Edward Curtiss). Farmer wasn't even nominated, despite the fact she plays two different characters--and almost two different movies. As a follow-up to her role here, Farmer was to have played Laurel in "Stella Dallas", but instead turned away from Hollywood to star on Broadway in "Golden Boy".
For fans of the tragic, under-appreciated Frances Farmer, COME AND GET IT deserves a special place on the shelf. The DVD includes the trailer. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
Movie Review: Gee, The Mother and Daughter Sure Look Alike
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on Edna Ferber's generational tale about the Wisconsin logging industry, "Come and Get It" (1936) is an excellent pairing of Frances Farmer and Edward Arnold (best known for "Diamond Jim"). What I found most interesting is the incredible resemblance between Farmer and Jessica Lange, who played her in "Frances" (1982). That film was a somewhat distorted account of Farmer's troubled life and was quite a hit with the activist crowd at the time of its release.
In "Come and Get It" Farmer gets to play two roles, a bar girl and her grown daughter. Both portrayals are excellent, no small accomplishment given that the film was co-directed. Howard Hawks directed the first scenes. He was replaced in mid-production by William Wyler. Any stylistic differences are obscured because the film jumps ahead 20 years at about the point where Hawks left the production.
Wisconsin logger Barney Glasgow (Arnold) chooses to marry for money; leaving behind heart of gold bar girl Lotta (Farmer); with whom he is actually in love. 20 years later Barney meets Lotta's now grown-up daughter who is the spitting image of her decreased mother (not exactly unexpected since the same actress is playing both roles).
The now very rich Barney is used to getting pretty everything he wants and he takes a fancy to his former girlfriend's daughter. This might actually be Arnold's best performance as the film is really a showcase of his character's sudden realization that he has grown old. It's not exactly happy ending stuff. The title comes from Arnold's final scene as he summons his dinner guests to the table with the line: "Come and get it or we'll throw it to the dogs".
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Movie Review: Come And Get It...why?
Summary: 3 Stars
I think it is phenomenal when actors play dual roles. Hayley did it. George Hamilton did it. And then I watched "Come and Get It" and witnessed Frances Farmer do it. Ah, sorry, but the first female character, a dance hall girl built like a linebacker and more masculine than any of the other male actors on the screen led me to one question, "who would want to marry this?" Sorry, but it ruined the movie for me. I liked the story and I liked the second female character she portrayed, but the dance hall man, ah, girl, was just not believable. She looked like a drag queen with really bad teeth. Walter Brennan was great. He deserved the Oscar. As I said, it's a good story, but why did the director let Frances do that awful dance hall girl? I guess he was into macho girls.
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