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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!
Drama
📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available:
📆 Date Released: 1928-03-23
⌚ Running Time: 41 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 6.0

Beloved Cast

Helen Foster original image
Sally Canfield
Helen Foster
Grant Withers original image
Don Hughes
Grant Withers
Florence Turner original image
Mrs. Canfield
Florence Turner
Charles Miller original image
Mr. Canfield
Charles Miller
Virginia Roye original image
Eve Terrell
Virginia Roye
Thomas Carr original image
Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)
Thomas Carr
Don Rader original image
Al
Don Rader
Eddie Dunn original image
Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)
Eddie Dunn

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