The Road to Ruin
The Road to Ruin

The Road to Ruin

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

6.0(2 votes)
1928
0h 58m
Drama

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.

Production

Cliff Broughton Productions

Cast

Helen Foster

Helen Foster

Sally Canfield

Grant Withers

Grant Withers

Don Hughes

Florence Turner

Florence Turner

Mrs. Canfield

Charles Miller

Charles Miller

Mr. Canfield

Virginia Roye

Virginia Roye

Eve Terrell

Thomas Carr

Thomas Carr

Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)

Don Rader

Don Rader

Al

Eddie Dunn

Eddie Dunn

Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)

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