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The Road to Ruin
Directed by
Dorothy Davenport
and
Melville Shyer
Passed
1934
62m
Drama
4.8
17%
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A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
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Public Domain Movies
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Cast of The Road to Ruin
Helen Foster
Ann Dixon
Nell O'Day
Eve Monroe
Glen Boles
Tommy
Robert Quirk
Ed
Paul Page
Ralph Bennett
Richard Hemingway
Brad
Virginia True Boardman
Martha Dixon
Richard Tucker
Mr. Dixon
Donald Kerr
Drunk shooting dice
Eleanor Thatcher
Dancer
Neal Pratt
Evans
Jimmy Tolson
Club Singer Jimmy
Mae Busch
Mrs. Monroe (uncredited)
Dorothy Davenport
Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
The Road to Ruin Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
[The Road to Ruin] is a cheaply constructed melodrama that shows so many evidences of having been hacked by the censors that it is hard to follow its course.
Los Angeles Times
John L. Scott
The picture becomes a preachment... against parents keeping their daughters in ignorance of life and its complications, and to accentuate the point, situations arise which might be better explained by the family physician than by the public screen.
The Film Daily
Film Daily Staff
The old story of young girls following 1 the primrose path is honestly and frankly handled, without any suggestive scenes. It is a frank presentation of the pitfalls of youth, and it whitewashes none of the character.
Variety
Epes W. Sargent
The development of the early episodes is sketchy and fragmentary.
Buffalo News
E.H. Gooding
There never is any doubt about the solemn moral intent of The Road to Ruin, which the cast enacts with almost as much embarrassment as the audience suffers.
Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
Charles Vanda
[It's] a picture designed to help those who believe babies are born in cabbage patches... An extremely capable cast tell this rather, outmoded story, and while they work energetically, they are quite handicapped by inferior photography and slow direction.
New York Times
Andre Sennwald
The deficiencies of Road to Ruin lie not so much in its amateurish composition as in its dull and unnecessary preoccupation with subject-matter which belongs in a sociological case history.
Honolulu Advertiser
Edna B. Lawson
The story and the intended moral is rather silly as there are few girls of Ann's type who lack the knowledge they should have.
The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)
James T. Hamada
It Isn't as powerful as the silent film, probably because the novelty has worn off, but still It's powerful enough.
Kansas City Star
Jack Moffitt
The film belongs to the group of films that seeks to profit by a long and salacious story advanced as a "warning." A mawkish moral and a spurious note of reform does not save It from being a bad influence.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An early talkie rogue indie melodrama.
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
Both [versions] are pure melodramas and not particularly scandalous by today's standards, but remain interesting as documents of their time.
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