The Purchase Price (1932)
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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). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, (more)
- Director(s):
- William Wellman
Synopsis of The Purchase Price
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). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Purchase Price
- Barbara Stanwyck - Joan Gordon
- Lyle Talbot - Ed Fields
- David Landau - Bull McDowell
- Leila Bennett - Emily
- Clarence H. Wilson - Justice of the Peace
- Crauford Kent - Peters
- Adele Watson - Mrs. Tipton
- Anne Shirley - A Farmer's Daughter
- George Brent - Jim Gilson
- Hardie Albright - Don Deslie
- Murray Kinnell - Spike Forgan
- Matt McHugh - Waco
- Lucille Ward - Wife of Justice of Peace
- Victor Potel - Clyde
- John Miller - Man on floor
- Harry "Snub" Pollard - Joe
- Director(s):
- William Wellman
- Writer(s):
- Robert Lord
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