Paid (1930 film)

Paid (1930 film)

Infobox Film
name = Paid


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director = Sam Wood
producer = Sam Wood
writer = Play:
Bayard Veiller
Adaptation:
Lucien Hubbard
Adaptation & Dialogue:
Charles MacArthur
narrator =
starring = Joan Crawford
Robert Armstrong
Kent Douglass
music =
cinematography = Charles Rosher
editing = Hugh Wynn
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = flagicon|USA December 30, 1930
runtime = 86 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0021228

"Paid" (1930) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, and Kent Douglass in a story about a wrongly accused ex-convict who seeks revenge, within the law, on those who sent her to prison. The film was adapted by Lucien Hubbard and Charles MacArthur from the play, "Within the Law" by Bayard Veiller. The film was directed and produced by Sam Wood.

Plot and cast

Unjustly sent to prison, Mary Turner (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 well-heeled elderly. In an ambitious step, Mary weds her enemy's son Bob Gilder (Douglass). At the end, she has come to terms with her past and seeks peace of mind rather than revenge. A subplot involves a police-thwarted heist of a painting and the capture of Mary's comrade-in-crime Garson. Cast includes Marie Prevost and Polly Moran as Mary's fellow prison inmates.

Reception

"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." [Quirk, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.]

Adaptations

"Paid" was remade in Bollywood as the film "Intequam" (1969) starring Sadhana.

ee also

* Joan Crawford filmography

External links

*imdb title|0021228


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