The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price (1932)

She took another woman's place on her wedding night!

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.

Date of release
1932-07-23
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 8m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
William A. Wellman

Casting

Interesting facts

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 mail-order bride of a humble farmer.

Production

During the fight scene between Talbot and Brent, Wellman approached each actor privately with the instruction: "let him have it." The actors practiced the fight, but when Talbot was thrown against a wall (as planned), his head struck a nail. He said: "It just bled like mad. They had to take me over to the infirmary and sew me up."

Stanwyck was hospitalized with burns on her legs after filming the fire scene.

Stanwyck's rendition of "Take Me Away" marked the first time that she sang onscreen.

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