The Purchase Price (1932)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A nightclub singer runs away from her criminal boyfriend and becomes a mail-order bride for a farmer. She tries to adjust to a simpler life in the country.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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