The Road to Ruin (1928)
58m
Running Time
March 23, 1928Release Date
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)

Joe Darensbourg
Musician in Barn Dance Scene

Willis Kent
Story

Norton S. Parker
Dialogue / Scenario Writer / Director

Cliff P. Broughton
Producer

Henry Crongager
Cinematographer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
smoking
exploitation
sin
underage drinking
b movie
troubled teen
teenage rebellion
teenage pregnancy
pregnant teen
morality tale
abortion
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. Due to its popularity, a sound version of the film was released late in 1928. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film is about a teenage girl, Sally Canfield, whose life is led astray by sex, smoking, and drinking, and ruined by an abortion. The film was remade as a talkie in 1934.
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