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The Purchase Price (1932)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. ... See full summary » Director:William A. Wellman |
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Title: The Purchase Price (1932)
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Joan Gordon
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George Brent | ... |
Jim Gilson
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Eddie Fields
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Don Leslie
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David Landau | ... |
Bull McDowell
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Murray Kinnell | ... |
Spike Forgan
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Leila Bennett | ... |
Emily - the Hotel Maid
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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 stubborness, a lecherous neighbor and the reappearance of Fields. Written by Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
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She took another woman's place on her wedding night..!Certificate:
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23 July 1932 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Einsame Herzen See more »Company Credits
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Queenie, Girl on Train: [Looking at a picture] Oh, yours has got bushy eyebrows; he'll tickle ya every time he kisses ya.
Woman on Train #2: [Talking with her mouth full] I don't care
[giggles]
Woman on Train #2: as long as he kisses me.
[the three of them laugh riotously, while Joan looks annoyed]
Queenie, Girl on Train: [Leaning forward, holding a banana up to her mouth] You know what they say about men with ...
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(uncredited)
Traditional Irish Jig
Played as dance music by the band at the wedding party
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During the wheat-burning scene a stand-in was used instead of Barbara Stanwyck, but she didn't think the stand-in acted as the character so Stanwyck decided to play it herself. This resulted in her getting some burns on her legs, but she never complained. See more »Quotes
[Four ladies, including our heroine, Joan, are headed west on a train. Three of them are comparing notes on their mail-order husbands while snacking. Joan is not participating]Queenie, Girl on Train: [Looking at a picture] Oh, yours has got bushy eyebrows; he'll tickle ya every time he kisses ya.
Woman on Train #2: [Talking with her mouth full] I don't care
[giggles]
Woman on Train #2: as long as he kisses me.
[the three of them laugh riotously, while Joan looks annoyed]
Queenie, Girl on Train: [Leaning forward, holding a banana up to her mouth] You know what they say about men with ...
[...]
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Soundtracks
"The Irish Washerwoman"(uncredited)
Traditional Irish Jig
Played as dance music by the band at the wedding party
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Of course this delicious tour-de-force is totally incredible... but WOW! You can't take your eyes off the screen in case Wellman gives his heroine whiplash as she moves from plushly-kept woman in Manhattan to mail-order farmer's bride in North Dakota. From take-out at Tiffany's to hauling coal nuggets 20 miles through a blizzard. From igniting the lust in men with her daring chanteusing to putting out the fire villains set to her and hubby George Brent's last-hope crop of wheat. All in just over 60 minutes!