You Can’t Take It With You: A Second Look

You Can’t Take It With You would make an interesting double feature alongside Come and Get It. Not only do their titles oddly compliment each other, but they both star Edward Arnold as, alternatively, a man who loses everything and a man who wins everything. In both, he has to learn how to live well with those situations. The earlier one was Hawks (and Wyler, but only on a perceived technical level) showing a great man of industry being brought low by his loses, in particular a love triangle...

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Published on January 22, 2024 05:48
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