The Purchase Price
The Purchase Price is a 1932 PreCode American drama film, which was directed by William Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, and Lyle Talbot. Adapted from the novel by Arthur Stringer, with a screenplay by Robert Lord, the film is about an attractive nightclub singer who leaves her criminal boyfriend and travels to Canada and becomes the mailorder bride of a humble farmer.
Jim and Joans relationship gets off to a rocky start on their first night, she rejects his advances and forces him to sleep elsewhere. In the morning, she apologizes but he keeps his distance. Over time she falls in love with him, but he remains aloof. Meanwhile, hes informed that hell lose his land if he cant pay his overdue mortgage. He has developed a great strain of wheat and is sure it will bring a profit, but he has no way to keep foreclosure at bay long enough to plant and harvest a crop. A neighboring farmer, Bull McDowell David Landau, offers to buy Jims land in exchange for Joans company, but Jim is unwilling to make such a bargain and thereby makes an enemy of Bull.A little later, Joan who has become a very capable farmers wife visits a neighbor who just gave birth with only her adolescent daughter by her side. Joan cleans the home, prepares food, turns an old dress into diapers, and calms the frightened daughter Anne Shirley. She braves a snowstorm to return home, where Jim has taken in a man who lost his way in the storm Eddie. She pretends not to know him, but Eddie quickly tries to take her with him. Jim, angry at Joan because of her complicated past and because hes jealous, though he cant yet admit that he cares about her, tells her to go with Eddie. She refuses and later asks Eddie privately for a loan to save Jims land. ........
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