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The Road to Ruin

6.0 41 mins Drama   1928
Cliff Broughton Productions  
Director(s): Norton S. Parker

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.

Casts of The Road to Ruin

Helen Foster

as Sally Canfield

Grant Withers

as Don Hughes

Florence Turner

as Mrs. Canfield

Charles Miller

as Mr. Canfield

Virginia Roye

as Eve Terrell

Thomas Carr

as Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)

Don Rader

as Al

Eddie Dunn

as Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)

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