The Road to Ruin

Mar 23, 1928

0h 58m

★ 6.0

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cliff Broughton Productions

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Cast

Sally Canfield

Helen Foster

Don Hughes

Grant Withers

Mrs. Canfield

Florence Turner

Mr. Canfield

Charles Miller

Eve Terrell

Virginia Roye

Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)

Thomas Carr

Don Rader

Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)

Eddie Dunn

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