The Risky Road (1918)
50 min
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.
- Data de estreia
- 8 de abril de 1918
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Dorothy Phillips como Marjorie Helmer
- William Stowell como Melville Kingston
- Juanita Hansen como Lottie Bangor
- Claire Du Brey como Mrs. Miles Kingston
- George Chesebro como Robert Grant
- Edward Cecil como Miles Kingston
- Joseph W. Girard como Van Belt
- Sally Starr como Myrtle
Equipe
- Ida May Park · Diretor(a)
- Ida May Park · Roteirista
- Katherine Leiser Robbins · Roteirista