Drama · United States of America · 1928 · 58m

The Road to Ruin

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Director
Norton S. Parker
Cast
Helen Foster as Sally Canfield Grant Withers as Don Hughes Florence Turner as Mrs. Canfield Charles Miller as Mr. Canfield Virginia Roye as Eve Terrell Thomas Carr as Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)
Crew
Willis Kent — Story
Tagline

Thrilling! Sensational! It seemed such a beautiful road, such a wonderful road - But it was only the Road to Ruin!

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
smokingexploitationsinunderage drinkingb movietroubled teenteenage rebellionteenage pregnancypregnant teenmorality taleabortionexploitation film
Key Collaborators
Norton S. Parker Director Willis Kent Story
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