This is a great film mainly because of the famous Director, William Wellman and the great acting of Barbara Stanwyck, (Joan Gordon) and George Brent, (Jim Gilson). Joan Gordon is a cabaret singer who is involved with a small town hood and racketeer named Eddie Fields, (Lyle Talbot) and Joan decides to answer an add for a mail order bride and she finds Jim Gilson, (George Brent) as a husband. They get married by a Justice of the Peace in a local town where Jim lives which is way out in the sticks of no where. Jim has a farm and lives in very rough conditions. Jim seems to have trouble trying to consummate his marriage and they both act like total stranger with each other and sleep in separate rooms. Howsever, Jim does make an occasional peek at Joan when she undresses for bed. There is many twists and turns in this film which will keep you glued to your seats to the very end of the film.
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