The Road to Ruin is a 1928 American silent black-and-white exploitation film directed by Norton S.
Parker">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.
The Road to Ruin | |
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Directed by | Norton S. Parker |
Written by | Willis Kent |
Produced by | Willis Kent |
Starring | Helen Foster |
Cinematography | Henry Cronjager |
Edited by | Edith Wakeling |
Distributed by | True-Life Photoplays |
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Running time | 60 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Box office | $2,500,000 |
The sound version featured a theme song entitled “The Road to Ruin” by Lottie Wells and Maurice Wells.
The Road to Ruin was made on a budget of either $15,000 or $25,000, making it one of the cheapest films made that year. Director Norton S. Parker later told his wife that lead actress Helen Foster was much like her character in that she was relatively naive; during the filming of the strip poker scenes, Parker kept a bottle of hard alcohol to offer Foster "liquid courage". The film was shot by Henry Cronjager using a hand-cranked camera typical of the era, but at faster-than-normal crank speed; this helped fill up each reel and getting the final film to feature length, but had the effect of making all the action in the film move slower.
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