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The Risky Road

04/08/1918

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0hr 50min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Dorothy Phillips
  • William Stowell
  • Juanita Hansen
  • Claire Du Brey
  • George Chesebro

    Director

  • Ida May Park

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Universal Film Manufacturing Company
  • Bluebird Photoplays

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • No Language

Cast

Dorothy Phillips

Marjorie Helmer

William Stowell

Melville Kingston

Juanita Hansen

Lottie Bangor

Claire Du Brey

Mrs. Miles Kingston

George Chesebro

Robert Grant (as George Cheseboro)

Edward Cecil

Miles Kingston

Joseph W. Girard

Van Belt (as Joseph Girard)

Sally Starr

Myrtle

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