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The Purchase Price is a 1932 pre-Code American romantic drama film directed by William Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent and Lyle Talbot. Adapted from the novel The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer, with a screenplay by Robert Lord, the film is about an attractive nightclub singer who leaves her criminal boyfriend and becomes the ...
The Purchase Price: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright. A torch singer becomes a farmer's mail-order bride.
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- Comedy, Drama
- William A. Wellman
- 1932-07-23
Even in the 1930s, an era of far-fetched movie plots, they didn't come much wilder than in The Purchase Price (1932). In this Warner Brothers melodrama, Barbara Stanwyck plays a torch singer who breaks off her affair with a married gangster (Lyle Talbot) in order to marry a decent guy.
- William A. Wellman
- Barbara Stanwyck
Nightclub chanteuse Joan Gordon (Barbara Stanwyck) desperately wants to end her illicit relationship with underworld kingpin Ed Fields (Lyle Talbot). But breaking up with such a powerful man won't...
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- William A. Wellman
- Drama
- Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot
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Summaries. A torch singer becomes a farmer's mail-order bride. Torch singer Joan Gordon, tiring of her relationship with small-time hood and racketeer Eddie Fields, flees to Montreal and becomes the mail-order bride of down-to-earth farmer Jim Gilson. Their chance for happiness is threatened by Gilson's own stubbornness, a lecherous neighbor ...
The Purchase Price (1932) - Directed by William A. Wellman, produced by and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, Hardie Albright, David Landau, Murray Kinnell, Leila Bennett, Mae Busch,and more...
