Film
The Road to Ruin
1928 · 58m · Drama
Thrilling! Sensational! It seemed such a beautiful road, such a wonderful road - But it was only the Road to Ruin!
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Overview
A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.
Cast
Helen Foster
Sally Canfield
Grant Withers
Don Hughes
Florence Turner
Mrs. Canfield
Charles Miller
Mr. Canfield
Virginia Roye
Eve Terrell
Thomas Carr
Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)
Don Rader
Al
Eddie Dunn
Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)
Crew
- Norton S. ParkerDirector
- Willis KentStory
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 23, 1928
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- xx
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Drama
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