

The Risky Road
1918-04-08 · 50 min · ★ 3.5
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.
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- Directors
- Ida May Park
- Production companies
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Bluebird Photoplays
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Dorothy PhillipsMarjorie Helmer
William StowellMelville Kingston
Juanita HansenLottie Bangor
Sally StarrMyrtle
Claire Du BreyMrs. Kingston
George ChesebroRobert Grant
Joseph W. GirardVan BeltTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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