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The Road to Ruin

1928
Directed byNorton S. Parker
0h 58m

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.

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Helen FosterSally CanfieldGrant WithersDon Hughes
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Florence Turner
Mrs. Canfield
Charles MillerMr. Canfield
Virginia RoyeEve Terrell
Thomas CarrJimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)
Don RaderAl
Eddie DunnStrip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.0

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