Release Date
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Original Release
March 23, 1928
0h 58m
The Road to Ruin (1928)
⭐ 7.358 min
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.
Director
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Norton S. Parker
Department: Writing
⭐Popularity: 0.5
Cast
Helen Foster
Sally Canfield
⭐0.8
Grant Withers
Don Hughes
⭐1.3
Florence Turner
Mrs. Canfield
⭐0.7
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Charles Miller
Mr. Canfield
⭐0.5
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Virginia Roye
Eve Terrell
⭐0.5
Thomas Carr
Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)
⭐0.9
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Don Rader
Al
⭐0.3
Eddie Dunn
Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)
⭐0.8
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Cliff Broughton Productions
