“Come and Get It was co-directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler. According to Hawks and Peter Bogdanovich, Wyler shot only the last 800 feet, using Hawks's script. But researcher Karl Thiede claims that Wyler reshot 80 per cent of the film. To complicate matters, the titles credit assistant director Richard Rossen with the documentary-like logging sequences, scenes I find characteristically Hawksian....
“Edna Ferber's story about ruthless American lumbermen who despoil the natural beauty of our forests is not unlike her tale of capitalistic cattle and oil barons in Giant; but Come and Get It (which Hawks claims is based on the story of his own grandfather) is distinctly Hawksian in its use of triangular imagery and love relationships and in the attempts of its central character to control his environment, and the film looks forward, as Robin Wood observes, to Hawks's own Red River (1948), which deals wth similar characters in similar situations.” --John Belton.
Edward Arnold gives another of his bigger-than-life performances as a timber tycoon, and Walter Brennan won his first Academy Award as Arnold's Swedish friend, and rival for the affections of Frances Farmer, who here appears as both mother and daughter.