This is a really entertaining movie and you don't need to know anything or be interested in wheat to enjoy it. Alan Ladd is wonderful (and gorgeous) as Joe Madigan who runs a harvesting gang with Robert Preston as his buddy Jim Davies, who is a great mechanic. Lloyd Nolan is funny as the diplomat who smooths things over when Joe and Jim fall out which is often particularly when it comes to "dames" in the form of Dorothy Lamour who has eyebrows that can tell a guy what she wants without a word! The gang has 30 days to pay off the combine harvesters they have bought and various things happen to make this difficult. First a wheat fire, then a rival gang of harvesters (which culminates in a hilarious bar room brawl between the two gangs), then Dorothy Lamour and finally a bunch of farmers angry that Jim has been nicking some of their grain to sell on the side. In one exciting sequence the armed farmers chase them to the state line and Alan Ladd has to jump from truck to truck to loosen the combine harvester at the back so it can fall off and form a road block. Last scene is the showdown between Joe and Jim over the dame. Brilliant and funny fight which is on its own worth watching the film for. Definitely one I would recommend!
Review of Wild Harvest
