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The Purchase Price (1932)

• Director
  • William A. Wellman
• Writers
  • Arthur Stringer(story "The Mud Lark")
  • Robert Lord(screen play)
• Stars
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • George Brent
  • Lyle Talbot

  Barbara Stanwyck, displayed in all her pre-Code glory, once again plays "damaged goods" in Warner Bros.' The Purchase Price. Hard-boiled nightclub singer Joan Gordon (Stanwyck) gets fed up being the kept woman of her married boss, bootlegger Ed Fields (Lyle Talbot). Fleeing New York City, she ends up in North Dakota as the mail-order bride of wheat farmer Jim Gilson (George Brent).