Come and Get It

[This is a contribution to the Early Hawks Blog-a-thon hosted right here at Only The Cinema. It will run from January 12 to January 23, 2009.]

Come and Get It is the result of Howard Hawks' second attempt, after the pleasant but totally uncharacteristic Barbary Coast, to work under producer Samuel Goldwyn at MGM. If in the previous film Hawks' style had been mostly subsumed by his producer's