Come and Get It

This is Howard Hawks’ first movie about getting old. I’m not sure if there will be others, but this feels like a small landmark in his filmography. It’s also a movie where Hawks was fired from the production with only a couple weeks left to go and replaced at the last second by William Wyler. There’s some debate on how much Hawks directed and how much Wyler directed ranging from the final half hour to about ten minutes of footage. Hawks, apparently, strayed from the source novel by Edna Ferb...