The Risky Road

The Risky Road (1918)

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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  • Release Date: 1918-04-08
  • Runtime: 0h 50min
  • Director: Ida May Park

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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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