Paid (1930 film)

Paid is a 1930 American PreCode drama film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, and Kent Douglass in a story about a wrongly accused exconvict who seeks revenge on those who sent her to prison using a scam called the Heart Balm Racket.

Unjustly sent to prison, Mary Turner Joan Crawford plots revenge upon those who sent her there district attorney Demarest Hale Hamilton and Edward Gilder Purnell Pratt. Once released she meets Joe Garson Armstrong, an experienced crook, and together they concoct a breach of promise scam to be perpetrated upon the wellheeled elderly. In an ambitious step, Mary weds her enemys son Bob Gilder Douglass Montgomery. At the end, she has come to terms with her past and seeks peace of mind rather than revenge. A subplot involves a policethwarted heist of a painting and the capture of Marys comradeincrime Joe Garson Robert Armstrong. Cast includes Marie Prevost and Polly Moran as Marys fellow prison inmates.Photoplay commented, The story is absorbing and Joan is simply grand The New York Times noted, Miss Crawford and Miss Prevost are very good in their roles. ........

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