The Risky Road

The Risky Road

1918 en 50 minutes

Rating: 4.2

Plot

Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.

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Cast

Dorothy Phillips

Dorothy Phillips

Marjorie Helmer

William Stowell

William Stowell

Melville Kingston

Juanita Hansen

Juanita Hansen

Lottie Bangor

Claire Du Brey

Claire Du Brey

Mrs. Kingston

George Chesebro

George Chesebro

Robert Grant

Edward Cecil

Edward Cecil

Miles Kingston

Joseph W. Girard

Joseph W. Girard

Van Belt

Sally Starr

Sally Starr

Myrtle

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