The Road to Ruin (1928)

The Road to Ruin

1928

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Norton S. Parker

Cast

Charles Miller as Mr. Canfield

Don Rader as Al

Eddie Dunn as Strip Poker Player (as Ed Dunn)

Florence Turner as Mrs. Canfield

Grant Withers as Don Hughes

Helen Foster as Sally Canfield

Thomas Carr as Jimmy Canfield (as Tommy Carr)

Virginia Roye as Eve Terrell