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| 3 | ''The Purchase Price'' (1932) is a [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] drama directed by Creator/WilliamAWellman, starring Creator/BarbaraStanwyck and George Brent. |
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| 5 | Joan (Stanwyck) is a [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] who wants to get away from her gangster ex-boyfriend. She finds her opportunity by becoming a mail-order bride for a man, Jim Gordon (Brent), in North Dakota. However, Jim and Joan get off on the wrong foot and subsequently have a cold relationship. Joan tries to adjust to the country life and capture Jim's heart. |
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| 7 | !!''The Purchase Price'' shows the following tropes: |
| 8 | * ActOfTrueLove: Saving the wheat from the fire was enough for Jim to realize that Joan really does love him. |
| 9 | * TheChanteuse: Joan’s line of work which is too risque for her playboy boyfriend's family. |
| 10 | * DeterminedHomesteader: A city girl turns into a country girl and manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer. |
| 11 | * IgnoreTheFanservice: Trying to entice Jim, Joan sets out her lingerie in his line of sight to get him into her room, but he closes the door, much to her chagrin. |
| 12 | * LastMinuteHookup: After helping put out the flames destroying their wheat (which they spent painstaking hours on), Jim picks Joan up in a romance novel way and they're off to consummate their marriage. |
| 13 | * LoveConfession: Averted with Jim. Even after many confessions of her love, Jim still won’t cave and consummate their marriage. |
| 14 | * LingerieScene: In the aforementioned IgnoreTheFanservice scene, Joan gets to frolic in her lingerie. |
| 15 | * MailOrderBride: Joan becomes one when she founds out that her gangster ex-boyfriend has found her hiding in Montreal, and her spinster housemaid sent Joan’s picture instead of hers to the mail-order service. |
| 16 | * MarriageBeforeRomance: How Jim and Joan’s relationship begins. |
| 17 | * ParentalMarriageVeto: Joan was engaged to a well-to-do playboy but his parents objected to their marriage, so he dumped Joan. |
| 18 | * SexlessMarriage: The Gordons' marriage gets off on the wrong foot because Joan is uncomfortable having sex with a man she barely knows. Jim, then, stays away from her after the incident (where he forced himself on her, but Joan rejected him soundly) and keeps his distance. |
| 19 | * VideoCredits: Early Warner Bros. films usually begin this way. |
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