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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
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 ...
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
The Purchase Price (1932) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
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 ...
1. Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
