The Risky Road
1918 | 50m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Ida May Park |
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| Writer: | Ida May Park, Katherine Leiser Robbins |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 08, 1918 |
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| Director: | Ida May Park |
| Writer: | Ida May Park, Katherine Leiser Robbins |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | woman director, partially lost film, fragment |
| Production Companies | Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Bluebird Photoplays |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: May 07, 2024 Entered: May 05, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| 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 |
| Name | Job |
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| Ida May Park | Writer, Director |
| Katherine Leiser Robbins | Story |
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