
San Francisco(1936)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.


“YOUTH SACRIFICED! ON THE ALTAR OF POWER!”
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Edward Arnold
Barney Glasgow

Joel McCrea
Richard Glasgow

Frances Farmer
Lotta Morgan / Lotta Bostrom

Walter Brennan
Swan Bostrom

Mady Christians
Karie Linbeck

Mary Nash
Emma Louise Glasgow

Andrea Leeds
Evvie Glasgow

Frank Shields
Tony Schwerke

Edwin Maxwell
Sid LeMaire

Cecil Cunningham
Josie
Come and Get It is a drama, romance film released in 1936 exploring themes of saloon, wisconsin, ambition, old man, look-alike, infatuation. Directed by Howard Hawks, it stars Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer. An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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