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The Purchase Price

The Purchase Price (1932)

  • 48% of users liked it
    (76 ratings)

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… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
Jul 23, 1932 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Sean Axmaker, Parallax View

    Wellman knows how to delivers the sex...

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Brent and Stanwyck do a nice job of opposites falling in love.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    This movie is both cute and realistic at times. It's a pretty good movie, and Stanwyck gives a good performance, but the rest of the cast is just okay, this movie could have been better, I think, but it's still pretty good.

  • jay n


    Frank pre-code drama about seen it all dance hall gal who becomes mail order bride to a rough farmer and through many hardships forges a happy life with him.

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