[3] The Harvest Shall Come was made for Imperial Chemical Industries, and makes the case for fertilizing the soil to improve productivity.

The film opens in 1900 when Tom Grimwood as a boy leaves his family cottage carrying his trunk to take a job on a farm for a weekly wage of 2/6 plus keep.

Tom is taught to work the plough, the harrow and other horse-drawn machinery, and learns skills such as milking and scything.

The film shows that in the interwar period standards of living in the country generally improved, but agricultural wages declined when imported corn depressed prices.

[2] The Spectator said the film was "an excellent piece of work, notable for its effective and truthful presentation of the vital subject of life in this country on the land.

"[1] It praised Max Anderson as one of the best documentary makers to appear for many years and called John Slater "an outstanding interpreter of working class character."