Take what you can get

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Movie
German title Take what you can get
Original title Come and Get It
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1936
length 105 minutes
Rod
Director Howard Hawks ,
William Wyler
script Jules Furthman ,
Jane Murfin
production Merritt Hulburd
music Alfred Newman
camera Gregg Toland
Rudolph Maté
cut Edward Curtiss
occupation

Take What You Can Get (Original Title: Come and Get It ) is an American feature film by the directors Howard Hawks and William Wyler . The script of the 1936 film drama is based on the novel Come and Get It by Edna Ferber, first published the year before . The film had its German premiere on February 10, 1978 on German television ( ARD ).

action

Barney Glasgow is the managing director of a logging company in Wisconsin . Delighted with the good work his men have done, he wants to go home and marry his boss's daughter, Emma Louise. Barney and his friend Swan Bostrom celebrate their business success in a saloon. You are impressed by the singer Lotta Morgen. Barney and Lotta fall in love. But Barney gives up love in favor of his wealth and leaves Lotta. Lotta turns to Swan, whom she is marrying.

A few years later - Barney married Emma and has two children - Barney visits Swan, whom he has not seen for some time. He learns that Lotta has died, but she has a daughter, also named Lotta. Barney meets young Lotta and falls in love with the beautiful child who thinks he looks at her like a daughter. He showered her and her cousin Karie with presents. Then he brings the two and Swan to his hometown. He offers Swan a meaningless job. Barney and Lotta become the town's gossip objects. Richard, Barney's son, argues with Lotta, who now realizes that Barney's feelings towards her are not paternal. She befriends Richard and falls in love with him.

Barney is shocked that his daughter Evvie wants to marry the unionist Tony Schwerke, who also invented disposable paper cups with Richard. He is also jealous of Richard and sends him to New York. Richard and his father quarrel at a staff party at Barney's house. Lotta prevents Richard from beating his father for being an old man. The affected Barney lets the two go. Emma comes up to him and confesses that Richard has left and not Barney as she feared. Barney rings the doorbell after dinner and says with tears in his eyes: "Take what you can get".

background

The film was shot in Idaho . Howard Hawks and William Wyler did not work together on this. Hawks was replaced by Wyler after disputes with executive producer Samuel Goldwyn .

Hank Worden , a good friend of Howard Hawks, can be seen in a minor supporting role as a lumberjack . Walter Brennan achieved two feats: He won the first Oscar, which was awarded in the Best Supporting Actor category. He also won it three times in exactly this category. Julia Heron and Richard Day were responsible for the equipment .

Soundtrack

  • Aura Lea by George R. Poulton and WW Fosdick, sung by Frances Farmer and later by Edward Arnold and Walter Brennan
  • The Bird on Nellie's Hat by Alfred Solman and Arthur J. Lamb sung by Frances Farmer, Edward Arnold, Mady Christians and Walter Brennan
  • Gwine to Rune All Night by Stephen Foster
  • Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair by Stephen Foster
  • Bridal choir from the opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
  • Fireflies from the operetta Lysistrata by Paul Lincke

Reviews

"Melodramatic adventure story" was the verdict of the lexicon of international films . “A rather conventional entertainment film despite a large number of accomplished Hollywood craftsmen in front of and behind the camera.” Prisma pointed out that William Wyler had finished the film, but that “the end result was more Hawks' signature,” although he was certainly right is one of his lesser-known films ”. Nevertheless, Hawks succeeded "here too, in a sideline," in "winning some extraordinary achievements from his actors".

Award

At the Academy Awards in 1937 , the film received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Walter Brennan). He was also nominated for Best Editing (Edward Curtiss).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Take what you can get. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ See prisma.de