Wild Harvest is a 1947 American drama film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour and Robert Preston.

The film was based on an original screen story called The Big Haircut by Houston Branch, which focused on wheat harvesters who travel across the country doing their job.

[4] Before a final script and cast had been confirmed, second unit filming commenced in July 1946 at the Russell Giffen ranch, 47 miles north of Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley.

Tay Garnett and the film crew shot footage of a real wheat harvest involving 27 combines and Alan Ladd.

[8][9] The cast included a 28-year-old Caren Marsh—a bit-part actor who had appeared in a Paramount training film warning military personnel against the dangers of women.

So many navy and army men wrote in asking for Marsh's picture that Paramount signed her to a long-term contract; Wild Harvest was her first appearance.