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The Road to Ruin (1928)

41m

Running Time

The Road to Ruin (1928)

Name: The Road to Ruin
Genre: Drama
Released: 1928-03-23

41m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

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)

Norton S. Parker

Director / Scenario Writer / Dialogue

Joe Darensbourg

Musician in Barn Dance Scene

Willis Kent

Story

Cliff P. Broughton

Producer

Henry Crongager

Cinematographer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
March 23, 1928

Status
Released

Running Time
41m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2024-07-24

This Movie Is About.

smoking

b movie

exploitation

teenage pregnancy

abortion

troubled teen

sin

pregnant teen

teenage rebellion

morality tale

underage drinking

exploitation film

Wiki.

The Road to Ruin is a 1928 American silent black-and-white exploitation film directed by Norton S. Parker and starring Helen Foster. The film is about a teenage girl, Sally Canfield, whose life is led astray by sex and drugs, and ruined by an abortion. The film was remade as a talkie in 1934.